Tallentire commands a high, limestone-bright ridge that surveys the shifting moods of the Solway Plain. It lies 3.0 miles north-north-west of Cockermouth (from Cockermouth: bearing 343°T, OS grid NY 107 353), and is situated north-west of Bridekirk village. To the east, the rising flank of Tallentire Hill catches the morning light, casting a long, violet shadow that reaches toward the stone cottages below. The land here holds the quiet weight of ancient industry, where the earth has been turned and tested by generations of farmers and quarrymen. Below the ridge, the waters of Brides Beck trace a thin, silver thread through the valley floor, carving a path through the heavy clay and limestone bedrock. This landscape possesses a stark clarity, where the wind strips away the superfluous, leaving only the bare bones of the Cumbrian earth visible under a wide, unyielding sky. Tallentire remains a place of wind-scoured stone and deep-rooted persistence, where the horizon feels close enough to touch.
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Live animated radar for Tallentire and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Tallentire, 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 Tallentire includes coordinates 54.704863, -3.386888, 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 Tallentire is available on the Tallentire 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.