Manaton, Devon Weather
About Manaton, Devon
Granite boulders and gorse-strewn hills define the rugged periphery of Manaton, where the air tastes of damp earth and distant salt. It lies 3.1 miles south of Moretonhampstead (from Moretonhampstead: bearing 183°T, OS grid SX 750 811), and is situated south-south-east of North Bovey village. High above the valley floor, the landscape falls within the protected expanse of Dartmoor National Park, where the horizon is fractured by the distinctive, weathered silhouette of Bowerman’s Nose. Manaton claims a quiet sovereignty over these slopes, its stone cottages hunkering down against the winds that sweep across the open moor. Below the church tower, the narrow lanes descend toward the hidden rush of water where Hayne Brook carves a path through the ferns. Sunlight here has a way of lingering on the lichen-crusted walls, turning the grey granite to a soft, bruised violet as the afternoon wanes. Visitors often pass through on their way to the tumbling waters of Becka Falls, yet the true character of the place remains anchored in its solitude. Manaton endures as a fragment of ancient, exposed earth, indifferent to the haste of the world beyond its rocky perimeter.
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About This Manaton, Devon Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Manaton, 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 Manaton includes coordinates 50.616788, -3.768205, 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 Manaton is available on the Manaton 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.