Martinhoe commands a high, rugged solitude where the North Devon plateau abruptly meets the churning Bristol Channel. It lies 3.3 miles west of Lynton (from Lynton: bearing 261°T, OS grid SS 667 486), and is situated north of Parracombe village. The landscape here falls within the protected expanse of Exmoor National Park, where the horizon feels perpetually wide and untamed. Ancient earthworks, such as the Barrows SE of Martinhoe, stand as silent sentinels over a terrain that refuses to be tamed by modern artifice. Below the village, the dramatic descent toward the sea is marked by the wild, verdant folds of the West Exmoor Coast and Woods SSSI. The quality of light in Martinhoe possesses a singular clarity, sharpening the edges of the gorse and stone until the world appears etched in high relief. Near the cliffs, the remnants of a Roman signal station offer a stark reminder of the long, austere history of this windswept promontory. Martinhoe remains a place where the wind carries the salt of the Atlantic across miles of heather and bracken, indifferent to the passage of human time.
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Live animated radar for Martinhoe and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Martinhoe, 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 Martinhoe includes coordinates 51.221314, -3.909507, 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 Martinhoe is available on the Martinhoe 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.