Ancient limestone walls cast long, amber shadows across the quiet lanes of Ampney St Mary as the sun begins its slow descent over the Cotswold plateau. It lies 4.0 miles east of Cirencester (from Cirencester: bearing 90°T, OS grid SP 086 020), and is situated north-east of Ampney St Peter village. The air here holds a distinct crispness, carrying the faint, earthy scent of damp clover and turned soil from the surrounding fields. Not far from the parish boundary, the ancient earthworks of Ranbury Ring rise as a silent, grassy sentinel, marking the landscape with the memory of iron-age industry. A short walk away, the remnants of the Standing Cross Socket Stone in St Mary’s churchyard offer a weathered, tangible connection to the devotion of centuries past. The golden-hued stone of the local architecture absorbs the morning light, warming the periphery of the fields where the land begins its gradual tilt toward the wider Cotswolds. Solitude defines the rhythm of the days, punctuated only by the distant, rhythmic lowing of cattle and the shifting of clouds over the open horizon. Ampney St Mary remains a place where the seasons dictate the pace of life, anchored firmly in the quiet gravity of the earth.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Ampney St Mary, Gloucestershire, 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. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Ampney St Mary includes coordinates 51.717436, -1.87606, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Ampney St Mary is available on the Ampney St Mary map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Gloucestershire 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.