Colliers Hatch, Essex Weather
About Colliers Hatch, Essex
Colliers Hatch persists as a quiet enclave of low-slung dwellings amidst the dense, ancient timber of the Epping Forest district. It lies 2.5 miles east of Epping (from Epping: bearing 90°T, OS grid TL 499 021), and is situated west-south-west of Toot Hill village. The landscape here retains the memory of medieval boundaries, marked most sharply by the Ongar Park Pale, a historic earthwork that defines the northern edge of the terrain with a silent, grass-covered authority. Sunlight often catches the damp, heavy clay of the fields, turning the earth into a deep, bruised copper that contrasts with the pale, thin sky of the Essex plains. A short distance to the south-east, the remains of the Moat House Moated Site suggest a time when the occupation of this land required both fortification and a watchful eye over the surrounding woods. Colliers Hatch possesses a stillness that seems to absorb the modern world, holding its own geography in a long, patient suspension. The proximity to the North Weald Redoubt, a relic of late nineteenth-century defensive planning, adds a layer of industrial melancholy to the horizon, grounding the hamlet in a history of guarded borders. There is a precise, unsentimental clarity to the air here, where the damp breath of the forest meets the open, windswept character of the surrounding farmland.
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About This Colliers Hatch, Essex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Colliers Hatch, 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 hamlet. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Colliers Hatch includes coordinates 51.698429, 0.16885, 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 Colliers Hatch is available on the Colliers Hatch 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.