Horwood keeps a steady, quiet watch over the rolling North Devon terrain, where the soil holds the damp chill of the Atlantic winds. It lies 3.1 miles east-north-east of Bideford (from Bideford: bearing 75°T, OS grid SS 502 276), and is situated west of Lower Lovacott village. The land here rises and falls in long, muscular swells, often softened by a pale, diffuse light that seems to gather in the hollows of the fields. To the west, the expansive grounds of Tapeley Park offer a contrast of manicured order against the wilder, tangled growth of the surrounding hedgerows. A short distance away, the Iron Age Enclosure And Roman Marching Camp marks the earth with the faint, geometric memory of ancient sentries who once paced these same ridges. Horwood remains defined by the slow rotation of the seasons, where the primary rhythm is dictated by the turning of the plough and the shifting weather. The architecture of the local church stands as a sturdy anchor of stone, resisting the persistent moisture that drifts inland from the coast. Here, the silence is not empty, but heavy with the weight of generations who worked the stubborn clay before the modern world arrived.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Horwood, 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 Horwood includes coordinates 51.028623, -4.136688, 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 Horwood is available on the Horwood 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.