Westleigh, Devon Weather
About Westleigh, Devon
Westleigh occupies a quiet corner of the Devon landscape where the land folds into subtle, verdant creases. It lies 5.4 miles west-south-west of Wellington (from Wellington: bearing 246°T, OS grid ST 059 171), and is situated west of Great Fossend village. The terrain here rises with deliberate purpose toward the heights of Knowle Hill, where the morning light catches the gorse in a pale, flickering gold. Below these slopes, the waters of Fenacre Water trace a persistent, silver path through the meadows, feeding the damp earth that sustains the local character. Westleigh remains defined by this proximity to the soil, where the boundaries between pasture and woodland blur under the weight of an expansive, restless sky. History lingers just a short walk away at the weathered stones of Canonsleigh Priory, where the remnants of an Augustinian foundation stand as silent witnesses to the passage of centuries. The atmosphere carries a particular clarity, a stillness that seems to sharpen the outline of every hawthorn hedge and distant ridge. Such a place asks little of the traveller, offering instead a profound sense of continuity that endures long after the sun has dipped behind the western hills.
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Live animated radar for Westleigh and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Westleigh, Devon Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Westleigh, 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 Westleigh includes coordinates 50.946036, -3.34077, 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 Westleigh is available on the Westleigh 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.