Gipsy Town, Devon Weather
About Gipsy Town, Devon
Gipsy Town holds the quiet, low-slung geography of the Mid Devon border, where the light seems to thicken against the hedgerows in the late afternoon. It lies 4.5 miles south-west of Wellington (from Wellington: bearing 227°T, OS grid ST 085 157), and is situated south-east of Great Fossend village. A thin, persistent dampness often clings to the fields here, rising from the earth with a scent of wet slate and dormant iron. Only a short distance away, the Maiden Down Sssi stretches its forty hectares of rough, unkempt heath, a patch of wilderness that defies the neat boundaries of the surrounding farmland. The wind carries a cold, sharp edge over these slopes, scouring the landscape of anything that does not belong to the stubborn grit of the soil. Gipsy Town remains a place of hollows and sudden inclines, where the silence is broken only by the rhythmic shift of weather moving in from the Atlantic. Down toward the west, the Fenacre Water traces its path through the heavy clay, carving a slow, dark vein across the valley floor. Such places possess a gravity that pulls the gaze downward, tethering the spirit to the cold, damp reality of the Devon loam.
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Live animated radar for Gipsy Town and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Gipsy Town, Devon Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Gipsy Town, 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 Gipsy Town includes coordinates 50.933735, -3.303401, 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 Gipsy Town is available on the Gipsy Town 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.