Belstone commands a stoic presence where the wild, heather-dusted expanse of Dartmoor National Park begins its ascent into the clouds. It lies 2.3 miles east-south-east of Okehampton (from Okehampton: bearing 113°T, OS grid SX 620 936), and is situated west-south-west of Sticklepath village. Granite cottages huddle against the persistent moorland winds, their walls absorbing the low, golden light that defines the transition from pasture to untamed upland. A short walk from the centre, the ancient Belstone Village Stocks remain as a silent witness to a more austere past. Beyond the threshold of the houses, the horizon is punctuated by the Nine Maidens Stone Circle, where granite monoliths stand in a quiet, circular defiance of the passing centuries. The terrain rises sharply towards the Nine Stones Ring Cairn on Belstone Common, offering a vantage point where the air tastes of peat and sudden, sharp rain. Here, the boundary between the cultivated garden and the prehistoric landscape dissolves into a singular, rugged horizon. Belstone persists as a sentinel of the moor, holding its history in the unyielding stone and the vast, shifting shadows of the sky.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Belstone, Devon, 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. Soil temperature, soil moisture and evapotranspiration data are provided for agricultural planning in this village. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Belstone includes coordinates 50.726399, -3.955281, in the county of Devon, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Belstone is available on the Belstone map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Devon 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.