Seatown commands a narrow, pebbled gateway where the land concedes to the relentless pull of the English Channel. It lies 2.9 miles west of Bridport (from Bridport: bearing 260°T, OS grid SY 419 921), and is situated south-south-west of Chideock village. Salt-crusted winds carry the scent of brine across the shingle of Seatown Beach, a shoreline where the tide polishes stone into smooth, grey coins. To the west, the towering silhouette of Golden Cap rises with a solitary gravity, its geological layers holding the ancient secrets of the West Dorset Coast Sssi. The River Winniford threads its way toward the sea, carving a quiet path through the marshy lowland that separates the high cliffs from the inland fields. Here, the light catches the mica in the beach stones, casting a silver gleam that shifts with the turning of the day. Seatown remains tethered to the rhythm of the water, a place where the earth’s heavy clay meets the vast, shifting blue of the horizon.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Seatown, 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 Seatown includes coordinates 50.726062, -2.8231, 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 Seatown is available on the Seatown 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.