Bourton, Dorset Weather
About Bourton, Dorset
Bourton holds the low, damp light of the Stour valley within its heavy stone walls, catching the evening as it spills over the limestone ridges. It lies 2.5 miles west-south-west of Mere (from Mere: bearing 247°T, OS grid ST 775 307), and is situated south-south-west of Zeals village. Deep springs once powered the ironworks and flour mills that gave the place its industrial pulse, leaving behind a legacy of clear water and quiet, moss-covered sluices. A short walk toward the horizon reveals Factory Pond, where the water remains still enough to mirror the grey, shifting clouds of the West Country. Beyond the immediate gardens, the land climbs toward Hart Hill, where the air grows thinner and the wind carries the scent of turned earth and ancient, forgotten stone. The horizon is broken by the rugged, irregular hollows of the Pen Pits Quern Quarries, where generations of hands once laboured to cut the rock from the stubborn ground. Bourton remains a place of shadows and sudden clarity, where the modern world feels distant against the enduring weight of the surrounding hills.
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About This Bourton, Dorset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Bourton, Dorset, 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. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Bourton includes coordinates 51.075947, -2.321488, in the county of Dorset, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Bourton is available on the Bourton map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Dorset 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.