Hampreston, Dorset Weather
About Hampreston, Dorset
Hampreston commands a quiet stretch of Dorset earth where the low sun catches the moisture rising from the heavy, dark loam. It lies 1.6 miles west-south-west of Ferndown (from Ferndown: bearing 246°T, OS grid SZ 055 991), and is situated west-north-west of Longham village. The land here holds the memory of ancient inhabitants, evidenced by the Bowl Barrow 270M South East Of Holy Cross Abbey, which rises from the fields like a forgotten, grass-grown shoulder of the earth. St. Mary’s Church stands as the anchor of Hampreston, its flint walls absorbing the grey, shifting light that drifts in from the nearby watercourses. To the north-west, the damp, tangled life of The Bog provides a wild counterpoint to the orderly, curated blossoms found at the nearby Knoll Gardens. The local horizon is defined by the flat, expansive rhythm of the Stour valley, where the river works the soil into a rich, clinging clay. Throughout the changing seasons, the air carries a sharp, metallic clarity that clarifies the silhouette of the old rectory and the surrounding hedgerows. This landscape does not shout its history but keeps it buried beneath the sod, waiting for the inquisitive eye to discern the humps and hollows of a long-settled past.
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Live animated radar for Hampreston and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Hampreston, Dorset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Hampreston, 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 Hampreston includes coordinates 50.791991, -1.923336, 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 Hampreston is available on the Hampreston 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.