Friars' Ground occupies a quiet, tilted stretch of land where the Cumbrian earth meets the wide, tidal breath of the Duddon Estuary. It lies 3.5 miles south-south-east of Broughton in Furness (from Broughton in Furness: bearing 152°T, OS grid SD 238 824), and is situated east of Kirkby-in-Furness village. The terrain here rises with a deliberate, muscular tension, pushing away from the salt-licked grasses toward the higher, broken horizons of the fells. To the north-northeast, the fractured stone of the Well House ruins stands as a silent witness to a more arduous way of life, its mortar crumbling into the creeping moss. Below these heights, Ghyll House Beck carves a persistent, silver groove through the landscape, feeding the damp, low-lying pastures with a steady, mountain-fed pulse. Sunlight often catches the moisture caught in the air, casting a translucent, pearlescent sheen over the fields that makes the horizon seem both distant and reachable. Friars' Ground remains defined by this intersection of rugged geology and the patient, rhythmic movement of water toward the sea. The horizon is sharpened by the presence of Out Park, which anchors the eastern view and provides a dark, solid silhouette against the shifting northern light.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Friars' Ground, Cumbria, England, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, real-time aviation weather (METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport), precipitation radar and Meteosat satellite imagery. Public safety alerts are sourced from the Met Office National Severe Weather Warning Service (NSWWS), covering wind, rain, snow, ice, fog, thunderstorm and extreme heat warnings. Coastal tide gauge readings are sourced from the Environment Agency National Tide Gauge Network in near real-time (15-minute updates), with marine wave and sea surface temperature data from the Open-Meteo Marine API. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Friars' Ground includes coordinates 54.232411, -3.169908, in the county of Cumbria, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Friars' Ground is available on the Friars' Ground map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Cumbria weather hub.
Weather data is sourced from the Met Office and the open-source Open-Meteo API, whose ensemble includes the Met Office UKMO model. Severe weather warnings come from the Met Office National Severe Weather Warning Service (NSWWS). River level and tidal data are sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring and National Tide Gauge Network APIs. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov, with a modelled estimate shown where no reporting station is in range. Radar is provided by RainViewer and satellite imagery by EUMETSAT. All data updates automatically on every page visit.