Five Ash Down commands a quiet prominence over the rolling Wealden landscape, where the earth holds the deep, rusted memory of the region's iron-working past. It lies 1.9 miles north of Uckfield (from Uckfield: bearing 11°T, OS grid TQ 477 240), and is situated east of Maresfield village. The light here often catches the soft, silvered surface of Underhill Lake, a reflective expanse that draws the eye westward across the cooling fields. To the southeast, the expansive grounds of Buxted Park offer a grand, verdant counterpoint to the more intimate scale of the local lanes. These thoroughfares carry the weight of centuries, tracing paths that once served the furnaces and forges that powered the early economy of this corner of East Sussex. Beneath the canopy of nearby woodlands, the soil remains rich and heavy, a tactile reminder of the natural forces that have long dictated the rhythms of life in Five Ash Down. The atmosphere possesses a plain, sturdy clarity, untroubled by the clamour of modern industry. Each change of season alters the perspective of the horizon, shifting the colours of the hedgerows from the sharp greens of spring to the muted, weathered browns of autumn.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Five Ash Down, 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 Five Ash Down includes coordinates 50.997132, 0.104288, 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 Five Ash Down is available on the Five Ash Down 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.