Lobb gathers its stone cottages under the vast, shifting skies of North Devon, where the salt-heavy air thins as it drifts inland from the coast. It lies 5.7 miles north-north-east of Northam (from Northam: bearing 13°T, OS grid SS 471 380), and is situated east-north-east of Saunton village. The land here slopes with a deliberate, muscular grace toward the low-lying wet meadows of the Braunton Swanpool Sssi, where the water clings to the earth in dark, reed-fringed mirrors. To the east, the ground hardens and rises into the shoulder of West Hill, a ridge that catches the first, cold clarity of the morning sun. Lobb maintains a quiet composure, its character defined by the slow, seasonal pulse of the fields rather than the clamour of the nearby tourist tracks. Beyond the immediate pastures, the terrain holds the hushed secrets of the landscape, including the ancient, silent earthworks of the slight univallate hillfort known as The Castle. The light in this corner of the county possesses a particular, silvered quality, turning the hedgerows into intricate webs of shadow as the day wanes. Lobb remains a place of singular perspective, where the horizon feels both expansive and intimately held by the surrounding geography.
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EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Lobb, 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 Lobb includes coordinates 51.120876, -4.184885, 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 Lobb is available on the Lobb 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.