Ugley sustains a quiet, enduring presence amidst the rolling agricultural expanses of the Essex countryside. It lies 2.4 miles north-north-east of Stansted Mountfitchet (from Stansted Mountfitchet: bearing 11°T, OS grid TL 516 288), and is situated south-south-east of Rickling Green village. The light here often catches the pale, weathered brickwork of historic farmhouses that have watched over the changing seasons for centuries. To the north, the thirty-four hectares of Quendon Wood SSSI offer a dense, ancient canopy that filters the midday sun into shifting patterns of emerald and gold. Ugley maintains a landscape defined by expansive, open fields where the wind carries the faint, crisp scent of turned earth and wild clover. Only a short distance to the south-south-east, the limestone exposures of Hall's Quarry SSSI provide a stark, geological contrast to the soft, verdant meadows surrounding the parish. Time in Ugley moves with the deliberate pace of the harvests, unburdened by the clamour of more frantic, modern thoroughfares. These quiet lanes and hidden hedgerows preserve a sense of solitude that remains untouched by the relentless push of progress.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Ugley, 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 Ugley includes coordinates 51.937085, 0.204434, 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 Ugley is available on the Ugley 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.