Burwash, East Sussex Weather
About Burwash, East Sussex
Burwash stretches along a high sandstone ridge, commanding a long view over the undulating folds of the Sussex Weald. It lies 5.4 miles south-south-east of Wadhurst (from Wadhurst: bearing 152°T, OS grid TQ 675 247), and is situated north-east of Burwash Weald village. The afternoon light here has a particular clarity, catching the weathered stone of the church tower and illuminating the copper-toned tiles typical of the local vernacular. Rudyard Kipling once walked these same lanes, finding in the quietude of the nearby seventeenth-century house, Bateman’s, a sanctuary that anchored his imagination. Beyond the village street, the land falls away into the damp, verdant hollows where the Willingford Meadows Sssi sustain a fragile, ancient ecology of meadowsweet and marsh orchids. The heavy iron-rich clay of the soil once fueled a thriving furnace industry, leaving behind a landscape still marked by the deep, sunken tracks of medieval pack-horse routes. Burwash retains a certain reserve, its architecture defined by solid timber frames and brickwork that seem to have grown naturally from the earth itself. The presence of the Kipling Statue serves as a silent guardian of this literary legacy, marking the spot where the author’s gaze often lingered upon the valley floor.
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EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Burwash, East Sussex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Burwash, 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 Burwash includes coordinates 50.9976, 0.385892, 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 Burwash is available on the Burwash 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.