Elkstone, Gloucestershire Weather
About Elkstone, Gloucestershire
Elkstone commands the high, windswept limestone plateaus of the Cotswolds with a stoic, grey-stoned resilience. It lies 6.2 miles south-south-east of Cheltenham (from Cheltenham: bearing 168°T, OS grid SO 968 126), and is situated south-south-east of Cowley village. This elevation grants Elkstone a clarity of light that sharpens the edges of its drystone walls against the vast, shifting sky of the South West. To the north, the slopes of Bubb's Hill rise like a silent sentinel, watching over the deep, verdant crease of Harcombe Bottom where the shadows gather early. The Church of St John the Evangelist serves as the soul of the place, its Norman architecture possessing a rugged, fortress-like gravity that defies the erosion of centuries. Below the parish, the damp, rich earth of the Cockleford Marsh Sssi provides a stark, bristling contrast to the parched, stony fields that define the wider agricultural horizon. Elkstone remains a place of profound stillness, where the wind carries the scent of crushed clover and the distant, metallic chime of a tractor working the stubborn, flinty soil. Here, the passage of time is measured not by clocks, but by the slow, rhythmic turning of the seasons across the open, exposed expanse of the Gloucestershire hills.
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About This Elkstone, Gloucestershire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Elkstone, 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 Elkstone includes coordinates 51.812698, -2.046603, 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 Elkstone is available on the Elkstone 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.