Barton Blount remains a quiet fragment of the Derbyshire landscape, where the heavy, loam-rich earth holds the memory of centuries in its deep, slow-turning furrows. It lies 7.3 miles east of Uttoxeter (from Uttoxeter: bearing 84°T, OS grid SK 208 347), and is situated north-east of Church Broughton village. The light here has a way of lingering over the fields, catching the edges of the Barton Blount Medieval Settlement Remains where the ghosts of a chapel and a decoy pond still ghost the contours of the pasture. Beyond these earthworks, the land pushes upward toward the quiet prominence of Crowfoot Hill, a rise that commands a wide, unhurried view of the surrounding meadows. Barton Blount exists as a place of agricultural persistence, where the rhythm of the seasons dictates the pace of life more surely than any clock. The low, damp air of the Midlands often settles across the pastures, softening the sharp lines of the hedges and turning the distant horizon into a wash of pale grey. There is a singular honesty in the way the brooks and hills define the geography, leaving Barton Blount to hold its own counsel amidst the expansive, open fields. The silence of the place is not an absence, but a presence, thick with the weight of the soil and the enduring character of the land itself.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Barton Blount, Derbyshire, 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 Barton Blount includes coordinates 52.909535, -1.691048, in the county of Derbyshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Barton Blount is available on the Barton Blount map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Derbyshire 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.