Bencombe, Gloucestershire Weather
About Bencombe, Gloucestershire
Bencombe reveals itself as a modest collection of dwellings caught in the quiet, limestone-veined folds of the Cotswolds. It lies 2.2 miles east of Dursley (from Dursley: bearing 98°T, OS grid ST 792 976), and is situated south-south-east of Uley village. The landscape surrounding Bencombe holds a certain heavy stillness, where the shadows of ancient earthworks like Uley Bury Camp loom over the valley with a silent, iron-age gravity. To the north-east, the grounds of Owlpen Manor offer a glimpse of Tudor permanence, their structured gardens providing a sharp contrast to the wild, unkempt slopes of Rockstowes Hill that rise to the west. Winters here bring a particular, biting clarity to the air, sharpening the contours of the dry-stone walls that divide the fields into a jagged, grey mosaic. Residents of Bencombe often watch the late afternoon sun bleed across the hills, turning the damp pastureland into a field of burnished copper before the light finally fails. History here is not a loud proclamation but a slow accumulation of footpaths and weathered rock, where the land suggests more than the inhabitants ever choose to say.
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About This Bencombe, Gloucestershire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Bencombe, 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 Bencombe includes coordinates 51.676922, -2.301953, 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 Bencombe is available on the Bencombe 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.