Smeatharpe exhales the quiet, silvered breath of the high plateau, marking the horizon where the sky meets the earth in a blur of soft, muted greens. It lies 6.6 miles north-north-east of Honiton (from Honiton: bearing 19°T, OS grid ST 198 106), and is situated south-west of Churchinford village. This stretch of land finds its place within the Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, where the light descends in long, thin ribbons over the ridges. To the west, the damp, sequestered expanse of the Southey And Gotleigh Moors SSSI holds the morning mist in its hollows, long after the sun has touched the higher fields. Smeatharpe carries the weight of a different era in its soil, bearing the quiet marks of a wartime airfield that once vibrated with the roar of engines. Today, the Upottery Airfield Nissen Hut Heritage Centre preserves the echoes of those departed pilots, their stories tethered to the corrugated iron and the prevailing winds. The air here tastes of cooling peat and open sky, untroubled by the haste of the coast or the clamour of the valley floors. Smeatharpe remains a place where the seasons dictate the pace, revealing the landscape in its most honest, unadorned state.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Smeatharpe, 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 Smeatharpe includes coordinates 50.889751, -3.141128, 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 Smeatharpe is available on the Smeatharpe 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.