Kingdown, Gloucestershire Weather
About Kingdown, Gloucestershire
Kingdown remains a quiet sentinel of the limestone plateau, its modest lanes defined by the slow drift of clouds over the Mendip fringes. It lies 5.2 miles south-east of Nailsea (from Nailsea: bearing 141°T, OS grid ST 525 641), and is situated south of Felton village. Cold winds often carry the scent of rain across the nearby slopes of Old Hill, where the earth holds a stillness that predates the modern boundary lines. Kingdown occupies a landscape where the horizon feels vast, stripped of artifice and exposed to the changing moods of the South West sky. To the north-west, the ancient earthworks of the two confluent bowl barrows on Felton Hill rise as subtle swells in the grass, marking a long-vanished presence upon the high ground. The light here has a sharp, clarifying quality, particularly in the late afternoon when the shadows lengthen across the dry-stone walls. Life in Kingdown follows the cadence of the seasons, unencumbered by the frantic pace of the larger valleys below. Such remnants of the past anchor the hamlet to the underlying bedrock, ensuring that Kingdown persists as a solitary, enduring fragment of the Gloucestershire countryside.
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About This Kingdown, Gloucestershire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Kingdown, 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 Kingdown includes coordinates 51.374653, -2.683224, 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 Kingdown is available on the Kingdown 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.