Colebrooke reveals its character through the slow, deliberate turning of the seasons across the rolling mid-Devon clay. It lies 3.8 miles west of Crediton (from Crediton: bearing 266°T, OS grid SS 770 000), and is situated south of Coleford village. Deep-set lanes wind toward the ancient parish church, where the tower guards the quietude of the graveyard against the persistent damp of the west country air. The landscape softens toward the west, where the hidden waters of Higherdown Bottom gather in the shadow of the hedgerows, feeding the lush, unhurried growth of the valley floor. Stone walls, lichen-crusted and stubborn, define the boundaries of fields that have been worked by hand and blade for countless generations. The light here has a peculiar, silvered quality, catching the dew on the meadows and illuminating the moss that clings to the ancient masonry of the church’s porch. Beyond the immediate periphery, the historic marker of Copplestone Cross stands as a silent sentinel, anchoring the memory of the land in stone. Colebrooke remains a place where the heavy silence of the evening is broken only by the low call of birds or the distant, rhythmic turning of agricultural machinery.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Colebrooke, 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 Colebrooke includes coordinates 50.786691, -3.745128, 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 Colebrooke is available on the Colebrooke 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.