Banwell, Gloucestershire Weather
About Banwell, Gloucestershire
Banwell holds a quiet gravity, its limestone foundations anchored firmly against the rising slopes of the Mendip Hills. It lies 3.4 miles north-west of Axbridge (from Axbridge: bearing 324°T, OS grid ST 398 590), and is situated west-south-west of Sandford village. Pale light often clings to the ancient masonry of the Romano-British Villa, Banwell, where the earth still guards the ghosts of a distant, orderly past. Beyond the houses, the terrain lifts toward the limestone outcrops of Banwell Hill, a ridge that catches the first amber flares of the morning sun. The air here carries a distinct, mineral sharpness, drifting down from the hidden depths of the Banwell Ochre Caves Sssi where iron-rich waters once stained the subterranean dark. Life in Banwell follows the slow, seasonal pulse of the surrounding fields, undisturbed by the hurried clamour of modern thoroughfares. Time seems to gather in the hollows of the landscape, leaving a silence that is broken only by the sharp, metallic call of a jackdaw or the rustle of wind through the high hedges. These limestone reaches offer a vantage point over a plain that stretches toward the Severn, holding the weight of centuries in every weathered crevice of the ground.
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About This Banwell, Gloucestershire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Banwell, 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 Banwell includes coordinates 51.327384, -2.864092, 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 Banwell is available on the Banwell 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.