Blackboys carries the quiet weight of the Wealden landscape, where the earth holds the memory of an iron-working past. It lies 3.0 miles east of Uckfield (from Uckfield: bearing 95°T, OS grid TQ 521 206), and is situated east of Framfield village. The land here descends toward the Tickerage Stream, a modest watercourse that carves its path through the damp, clay-heavy soil. Beneath the surface, the remnants of the Pounsley Iron Furnace remind the observer of a time when the glow of smelting fires defined the rhythm of these woods. Blackboys persists as a collection of dwellings that seem to have grown organically from the furrowed fields and ancient hedgerows. Sunlight often catches the moss on weathered brickwork, illuminating a stillness that persists despite the modern traffic passing nearby. The horizon is broken by the silhouettes of mature trees, their branches reaching into a sky that frequently turns a bruised, heavy grey in the late afternoon. This terrain demands a patient eye, rewarding those who notice how the shadows shift across the open common as the day wanes.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Blackboys, East Sussex, 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 Blackboys includes coordinates 50.965611, 0.164689, in the county of East Sussex, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Blackboys is available on the Blackboys map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the East Sussex 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.