Hardendale, Cumbria Weather
About Hardendale, Cumbria
Hardendale reveals itself as a stark, limestone-grey outpost where the high Cumbrian winds carve long shadows across the open fells. It lies 7.2 miles west-south-west of Appleby-in-Westmorland (from Appleby-in-Westmorland: bearing 240°T, OS grid NY 582 146), and is situated east-south-east of Shap village. This small cluster of dwellings occupies a rugged expanse within the Lake District National Park, where the horizon remains wide and indifferent to human passage. Beneath the soil, the remnants of the Hardendale Medieval Dispersed Settlement and Site of Medieval Monastic Grange persist as silent, grass-covered echoes of a harder, ecclesiastical life. To the west, the slopes of Croft Hill rise like a blunt shoulder against the sky, anchoring the hamlet to a landscape defined by exposed rock and thin, resilient turf. The light here has a sharp, crystalline quality that clarifies the distance, stripping the hills of artifice and revealing the bone-structure of the earth. A few hundred metres to the north-east, the Small Stone Circle near Castlehowe Scar stands as a weathered testament to ancient observances, its stones worn smooth by centuries of rain. Hardendale maintains a quiet isolation, far removed from the frantic pace of the lowlands, breathing instead in the slow, rhythmic cycle of the seasons.
Flight conditions near Hardendale. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Hardendale and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Hardendale, Cumbria Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Hardendale, 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 Hardendale includes coordinates 54.525414, -2.646493, 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 Hardendale is available on the Hardendale 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.