Mansriggs occupies a quiet threshold where the crinkled limestone of the Furness peninsula begins its slow, deliberate climb toward the high fells. It lies 1.5 miles north of Ulverston (from Ulverston: bearing 7°T, OS grid SD 291 806), and is situated south-south-east of Broughton Beck village. The land here holds the damp, cool memory of winter long after the sun has climbed, especially where the shadows of The Alps stretch across the eastern fields. Below these rising slopes, the terrain softens into the shallow basin of Newland Bottom, a corridor of green that catches the morning light with a singular, pale clarity. Mansriggs remains a collection of sturdy, dispersed dwellings that seem to have grown from the geology itself, indifferent to the encroaching bustle of the nearby market town. Fields are partitioned by dry-stone walls that serve as skeletal maps of ancient ownership, their grey surfaces punctuated by the persistent, rhythmic drip of rain. To the south, the Sir John Barrow Monument watches over the horizon like a silent, white sentinel, keeping a steady vigil over the changing weather patterns of the Leven estuary. This is a landscape of muted tones and hard edges, where the wind carries the clean, sharp scent of distant salt and wet bracken.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Mansriggs, 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 Mansriggs includes coordinates 54.216244, -3.088218, 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 Mansriggs is available on the Mansriggs 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.