Winton breathes beneath the vast, shifting canopy of the South Downs National Park, where the air tastes of salt carried inland from the distant English Channel. It lies 3.7 miles west of Polegate (from Polegate: bearing 261°T, OS grid TQ 523 037), and is situated north-east of Alfriston village. The landscape here holds a quiet gravity, defined by chalky ridges that catch the pale, silvered light of early morning. To the east, the earth remembers the medieval past at the site of The Rookery, where subtle undulations in the pasture mark the foundations of vanished lives. Winton remains a place of quiet transition, where the rolling turf yields to the structured peace of the surrounding fields. Residents often look towards the nearby Alfriston Market Cross, a stone sentinel that has observed the turning seasons for centuries. Walking the lanes around Winton, one encounters a stillness that seems to thicken as the sun dips behind the high, grassy embankments of Burlough Castle. This land does not clamour for attention, preferring instead to reveal its character through the slow, rhythmic pulse of the seasons.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Winton, 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 Winton includes coordinates 50.813628, 0.16072, 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 Winton is available on the Winton 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.