Shawfoot, Cumbria Weather
About Shawfoot, Cumbria
Shawfoot emerges from the Cumbrian landscape as a collection of quiet stone dwellings gathered against the backdrop of an expansive, wind-swept horizon. It lies 5.4 miles north-west of Brampton (from Brampton: bearing 312°T, OS grid NY 466 669), and is situated west-south-west of Hethersgill village. The light here possesses a singular, thin clarity that catches the edges of the drystone walls and makes the surrounding fields appear perpetually silvered. To the east, the damp, shifting expanse of Bolton Fell and Walton Mosses exerts a gravitational pull on the local atmosphere, grounding Shawfoot in a terrain defined by peat and slow-moving water. A short distance to the west, the skeletal remains of Dikenook stand as a stark reminder of the centuries of agrarian labor that preceded the modern fencing of these pastures. The land slopes with an honest, unadorned severity, revealing the underlying geology where the soil is often thin and demanding of its inhabitants. Life in Shawfoot moves in accordance with the turning of the seasons, dictated by the sudden shifts in weather that sweep across the North West from the Solway Firth. These rhythms remain tethered to the soil, where the heritage of small-scale husbandry continues to shape the character of every lane and boundary.
Flight conditions near Shawfoot. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Shawfoot and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Shawfoot, Cumbria Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Shawfoot, 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 Shawfoot includes coordinates 54.994002, -2.836101, 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 Shawfoot is available on the Shawfoot 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.