Brendon occupies a high, windswept ridge where the air tastes of salt and ancient stone. It lies 3.1 miles east of Lynton (from Lynton: bearing 101°T, OS grid SS 769 483), and is situated east-south-east of Lynmouth village. The landscape here is defined by the rugged topography of Exmoor National Park, where the horizon pulls the eye toward the distant, rolling spine of the moor. To the east, the slopes sharpen into the deep, verdant incision of the East Lyn Valley, where the water moves with a cold, insistent urgency. Brendon holds a quiet gravity, its buildings fashioned from the very earth that supports them, enduring the persistent winds from the nearby Exmoor Coastal Heaths SSSI. Sunlight strikes the jagged edges of the terrain, casting shadows that shift across the grass with a slow, deliberate precision. Residents walk paths that have been worn smooth by generations, moving between the stone walls that mark the boundaries of this high, open country. Brendon remains a place of austere beauty, where the silence is broken only by the sharp call of buzzards circling above the heather.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Brendon, 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 hamlet. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Brendon includes coordinates 51.220651, -3.763211, 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 Brendon is available on the Brendon 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.