Pounsley emerges from the Wealden landscape as a quiet collection of dwellings defined by the heavy, iron-rich clay of East Sussex. It lies 3.3 miles east of Uckfield (from Uckfield: bearing 84°T, OS grid TQ 525 217), and is situated north-north-east of Blackboys village. The earth here holds the memory of a strenuous industrial past, evidenced by the proximity of the Pounsley Iron Furnace, where the cooling slag once bled into the dark soil. Water defines the edges of the terrain, as the Tickerage Stream carves a slow, deliberate path through the fields, its surface often catching a pale, fractured light. Ancient boundaries remain visible in the geography, marking the transition from open pasture to the dense, tangled undergrowth of the nearby woodlands. Pounsley retains a stark, unadorned character, indifferent to the encroaching pace of the modern world. The stillness of the afternoon is broken only by the shifting of the wind through the high, swaying canopies that flank the horizon. Every lane and hedgerow suggests a long, private history, long since surrendered to the encroaching silence of the countryside.
Flight conditions near Pounsley. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Pounsley and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Pounsley, 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 Pounsley includes coordinates 50.974759, 0.17188, 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 Pounsley is available on the Pounsley 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.