Old Beat emerges from the quiet creases of the Mid Devon landscape, a place defined by the slow, deliberate work of water and wind. It lies 4.7 miles south-west of Wellington (from Wellington: bearing 227°T, OS grid ST 083 155), and is situated south-east of Great Fossend village. The horizon here is dominated by the subtle, persistent rise of the land, where the light catches the silvered grasses of the nearby Maiden Down SSSI with a pale, fleeting brilliance. Old Beat retains a solitude that feels earned, far from the frantic pulse of the arterial roads that skirt the county. To the north-west, the low-lying basin of the Fenacre Water provides a damp, rhythmic counterpoint to the drier, elevated pastures that define the immediate geography. The air in Old Beat holds the crisp, earthy scent of turn-of-the-season soil, a smell that has remained largely unchanged through the passing generations of farmers. Stone walls mark the edges of fields with a stubborn, grey geometry, grounding the hamlet within a wider, rolling expanse of green. Such spaces offer a rare stillness, where the only movement is the long shadow of a cloud drifting over the high, untamed slopes.
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Live animated radar for Old Beat and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Old Beat, 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 Old Beat includes coordinates 50.932436, -3.305385, 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 Old Beat is available on the Old Beat 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.