Swallows Cross, Essex Weather
About Swallows Cross, Essex
Swallows Cross emerges from the quiet Essex landscape as a collection of dwellings where the horizon feels wide and unencumbered by the clamour of modern thoroughfares. It lies 3.2 miles north-north-east of Brentwood (from Brentwood: bearing 19°T, OS grid TQ 612 988), and is situated east-south-east of Wyatt's Green village. The light here possesses a particular clarity, catching the edges of hedgerows and fallow fields in a way that renders the mundane details of rural life momentarily luminous. To the east, the ruins of Thoby Priory offer a silent, stone-hewn gravity to the surrounding pastures, reminding visitors of a monastic past that once held sway over these verdant acres. A short distance to the west, the Doddinghurst Brook carves a persistent, silver path through the clay, its movement providing a steady, low-frequency pulse beneath the rustling canopy of ash and oak. Swallows Cross remains defined by this interplay of water and earth, where the soil is heavy and rich, clinging to the boots of those who walk its perimeter. The agricultural heritage of the district lingers in the layout of the lanes, which follow the ancient, erratic contours of land once divided by feudal custom rather than modern planning. Each season brings a transformation to the local flora, from the sharp green of early spring shoots to the muted, bronzed exhaustion of late autumn.
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About This Swallows Cross, Essex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Swallows Cross, 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 Swallows Cross includes coordinates 51.664876, 0.329933, 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 Swallows Cross is available on the Swallows Cross 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.