Beacon Hill, Essex Weather
About Beacon Hill, Essex
Beacon Hill rises with a quiet, persistent dignity above the surrounding Essex clay. It lies 2.2 miles east-south-east of Witham (from Witham: bearing 122°T, OS grid TL 852 127), and is situated north-east of Wickham Bishops village. The landscape here breathes with a slow, agricultural patience, defined by the steady incline that gives the place its name. Only a short distance away, the historic grounds of the Garden of Great Ruffins offer a sanctuary of clipped hedges and structured silence. Beyond the immediate dwellings, the namesake Beacon Hill commands a view that stretches across the broad, open sky of the eastern counties. Here, the light seems to linger longer on the fields, turning the earth a rich, deep ochre as the sun dips toward the horizon. Beacon Hill maintains a character defined by its elevation, standing apart from the lower, damp meadows that define the wider Maldon district. The air remains crisp and unburdened, carrying a faint sharpness that signals the proximity of the coast and the openness of the North Sea winds.
Flight conditions near Beacon Hill. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Beacon Hill and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Beacon Hill, Essex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Beacon Hill, Essex, 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. Soil temperature, soil moisture and evapotranspiration data are provided for agricultural planning in this village. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Beacon Hill includes coordinates 51.782816, 0.684496, in the county of Essex, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Beacon Hill is available on the Beacon Hill map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Essex 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.