Chestwood, Devon Weather
About Chestwood, Devon
Chestwood commands a quiet prominence over the verdant folds of the North Devon landscape. It lies 1.5 miles south-south-east of Barnstaple (from Barnstaple: bearing 169°T, OS grid SS 563 310), and is situated north-north-west of Bishop's Tawton village. The terrain here rises with a deliberate grace, pulling the eye toward the distant, hazy silhouette of Tawstock Castle that watches from the west. Sunlight strikes the fields with a pale, silver clarity, illuminating the rhythmic rise of the land as it slopes toward the lower reaches of the valley. To the south, the slopes of Tent Hill rise to meet the shifting weather, casting long, lean shadows across the pastures in the late afternoon. Chestwood maintains a steady relationship with the surrounding earth, where the soil holds a heavy, dark richness suited for the patient labour of the plough. The air carries the faint, bracing scent of the nearby waterways, a reminder of the proximity of the brooks that thread through the lowlands. Through these spaces, the quietude of the countryside remains undisturbed, defined by the slow, seasonal turn of the horizon.
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Live animated radar for Chestwood and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Chestwood, Devon Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Chestwood, 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 suburban area. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Chestwood includes coordinates 51.060399, -4.051767, 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 Chestwood is available on the Chestwood 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.