Horsley, Gloucestershire Weather
About Horsley, Gloucestershire
Horsley commands the high, rolling limestone plateaus of the Cotswolds, where the sunlight catches the pale, honeyed edges of local stone with a stark, quiet clarity. It lies 1.3 miles south-west of Nailsworth (from Nailsworth: bearing 230°T, OS grid ST 833 981). The terrain here drops sharply into hidden valleys, carving a landscape defined by the persistent, cold vitality of the Horsley Brook as it winds through the verdant floor. Ancient woodland dominates the southern horizon, where the Kingscote And Horsley Woods SSSI holds a dense, silent complexity of beech and ash that has survived the turning of many centuries. Horsley retains the stern, functional dignity of its cloth-working past, when the water-powered mills drove the industry of the region. The parish church, with its distinctive spire, serves as a steady, vertical anchor against the vast, shifting expanse of the Gloucestershire sky. Paths trace the contours of the slopes, connecting the quiet lanes of Horsley to the broader, wind-swept ridges where the air tastes of damp earth and coming rain. This geography demands a deliberate pace, rewarding those who traverse its steep inclines with an enduring sense of isolation from the frantic world beyond the hills.
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About This Horsley, Gloucestershire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Horsley, 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 Horsley includes coordinates 51.682184, -2.242758, 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 Horsley is available on the Horsley 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.