Boasley Cross, Devon Weather
About Boasley Cross, Devon
Boasley Cross occupies a quiet, windswept ridge where the Devon landscape begins its long, slow ascent toward the higher ground of the moors. It lies 5.5 miles west-south-west of Okehampton (from Okehampton: bearing 259°T, OS grid SX 499 936), and is situated east-north-east of Bratton Clovelly village. The light here has a sharp, clarifying quality, catching the edges of the hedgerows and revealing a terrain shaped by centuries of heavy agricultural labour. To the north-west, the earth holds the ghost of the Broadbury Castle Roman Camp, a silent earthwork that reminds the passer-by of how long this high ground has commanded the horizon. Below this elevation, the River Thrushel draws a thin, silver thread through the valley, its movement providing a persistent, low-frequency hum to the silence of the fields. Boasley Cross remains a place of stoic patience, where the wind carries the scent of damp earth and the distant, metallic tang of shifting weather. The proximity of ancient barrows on the nearby downs adds a gravity to the surroundings, as if the soil itself remembers the weight of those who walked these paths before the advent of modern machinery. This is a landscape of open sky and enduring stone, where the horizon feels vast enough to swallow the small, scattered dwellings that define the character of Boasley Cross.
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About This Boasley Cross, Devon Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Boasley Cross, 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 other settlement. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Boasley Cross includes coordinates 50.723221, -4.126501, 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 Boasley Cross is available on the Boasley Cross 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.