Henley emerges from the Dorset landscape as a quiet collection of dwellings defined by the chalky contours of the South West. It lies 8.3 miles south-south-east of Sherborne (from Sherborne: bearing 155°T, OS grid ST 693 044), and is situated south of Woolford's Water village. The land here rises in gentle, ancient swells, inviting the eye toward the rounded crest of Knoll, which watches over the horizon like a silent sentinel. Beneath the vast, shifting skies of this region, Henley maintains a stillness that feels untouched by the frantic pace of modern commerce. A short distance away, the Henley Hillbillies & Badger Watch grounds the local spirit in the immediate rhythms of the natural world. The soil here, thin and chalk-rich, supports a landscape where the light seems to linger longer, casting long shadows across the fields as the sun dips behind the western ridges. Every path surrounding Henley offers a tactile connection to the earth, where the history of the land is written in the very curvature of the hills.
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Live animated radar for Henley and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Henley, 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 Henley includes coordinates 50.839083, -2.436637, 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 Henley is available on the Henley 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.