Colethrop remains a quiet pocket of the Gloucestershire landscape, defined by its intimate connection to the broader, rolling terrain of the Cotswolds. It lies 2.7 miles west-north-west of Painswick (from Painswick: bearing 285°T, OS grid SO 824 108), and is situated east-north-east of Haresfield village. The light here catches the limestone walls with a pale, brittle clarity, revealing the agricultural persistence that has long defined these fields. To the south, the expansive slopes of Haresfield Beacon SSSi rise as a dominant, grassy rampart against the sky, grounding the geography of the region in ancient earthworks. Colethrop shares this horizon with the ghosts of medieval life, sitting less than a mile from the silent, waterless hollow of The Mount Moated Site. The land holds its breath in the transition between the high, windy escarpments and the flatter, fertile vales below. Here, the air carries the sharp, clean scent of grazed pasture and the distant, rhythmic hum of a rural world that prefers to remain largely undisturbed.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Colethrop, 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 Colethrop includes coordinates 51.795866, -2.256433, 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 Colethrop is available on the Colethrop 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.