Moreleigh emerges from the rolling folds of the South Hams as a quiet gathering of stone and slate. It lies 5.3 miles south-south-west of Totnes (from Totnes: bearing 204°T, OS grid SX 766 527), and is situated west-south-west of Halwell village. The morning light here often catches the grey, weathered face of the Churchyard Cross, standing as a silent sentinel near the ancient porch of St Leonard’s Church. Beyond the immediate dwellings, the land rises toward the prominence of Stanborough Hill, where the earth retains the faint, stubborn memory of older, defensive works. The horizon is further defined by the Ritson Barrows, a cluster of burial mounds that hold the landscape in a long, unbroken dialogue with the past. Throughout the parish, the air carries a crispness derived from the open, high-reaching fields that slope toward the distant, unseen currents of the coast. Moreleigh remains a place where the passage of time is marked not by clocks, but by the slow, seasonal transformation of the surrounding hedgerows and the shifting patterns of the clouds.
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Live animated radar for Moreleigh and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Moreleigh, 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 Moreleigh includes coordinates 50.362041, -3.735744, 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 Moreleigh is available on the Moreleigh 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.