Park Head, Cumbria Weather
About Park Head, Cumbria
Park Head occupies a rugged threshold where the Cumbrian landscape rises to meet the expansive, unblinking sky of the North Pennines. It lies 8.4 miles west-south-west of Alston (from Alston: bearing 251°T, OS grid NY 589 421), and is situated south-south-west of Renwick village. High above the stone-walled pastures, the silhouette of How Moor dominates the northern horizon, casting long, cool shadows that stretch across the fields as the afternoon light begins to thin. The water of the nearby Holywell Gill carves a quiet, persistent path through the limestone, its voice a constant, low-frequency hum beneath the silence of the high ground. Park Head remains a place defined by the stubborn endurance of its drystone boundaries and the way the wind behaves when it meets the exposed fells. Winter sunlight here has a peculiar, brittle clarity that makes the grey slate of the buildings appear almost luminous against the muted ochres of the surrounding bracken. To walk the lanes near Park Head is to observe how the earth yields slowly to the elements, smoothed by the passage of rain and the heavy, patient tread of hill sheep. The terrain maintains a stark, honest geometry, unadorned by the softening influence of lowland woods or the clutter of modern artifice.
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EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Park Head, Cumbria Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Park Head, 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. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Park Head includes coordinates 54.772563, -2.639532, 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 Park Head is available on the Park Head 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.