Dixton, Gloucestershire Weather
About Dixton, Gloucestershire
Dixton emerges from the Gloucestershire landscape as a quiet collection of stone and timber, defined by the slow, deliberate pulse of the agricultural season. It lies 3.0 miles west-north-west of Winchcombe (from Winchcombe: bearing 298°T, OS grid SO 982 306), and is situated south of Alstone village. To the east, the steep rise of Dixton Hill acts as a silent sentinel, its heavy, rounded profile catching the long, horizontal light of late afternoon. Beneath this high ground, the earth retains the faint, stubborn impressions of Dixton Hill Camp, a fortification that has surrendered its military purpose to the grazing of livestock. Further north, the dense canopy of Dixton Wood Sssi shelters a rare, damp stillness, where the air grows thick with the scent of moss and rotting leaf-litter. The geography here is one of subtle shifts and sudden elevations, demanding that a traveller pay attention to the changing inclination of the lanes. Dixton maintains a modest, solitary character, stripped of pretension and governed by the ancient, unyielding geometry of the Cotswold escarpment.
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About This Dixton, Gloucestershire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Dixton, 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 Dixton includes coordinates 51.974162, -2.027206, 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 Dixton is available on the Dixton 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.