Long Ashton, Gloucestershire Weather
About Long Ashton, Gloucestershire
Long Ashton commands a quiet dignity at the threshold of the Mendip Hills, where the limestone ridges meet the fertile lowlands of Somerset. It lies 3.1 miles west-south-west of Bristol (from Bristol: bearing 238°T, OS grid ST 540 702), and is situated east-north-west of Cambridge Batch village. The morning light often catches the damp, ancient earth near the Deserted Medieval Farmstead and part of a Romano-British field system 400m north of Fenswood Farm, revealing the faint, persistent ghost of furrow and boundary. To the north-east, the slopes of Ashton Hill rise with a brooding, verdant weight, anchoring the local horizon against the shifting clouds of the Severn estuary. Long Ashton carries a legacy of agrarian industry, its fields having long served the appetites of the neighbouring city while maintaining a distinct, stubborn character of their own. A traveller might wander toward the Chapel at Lower Court, where the weathered stone still holds a cool, silent gravity that defies the frantic pace of modern transit. The air here possesses a crisp, sharpened edge, smelling faintly of woodsmoke and the rich, dark loam of the surrounding orchards. Every lane in Long Ashton seems to invite a lingering gaze, as if the landscape itself were waiting for the shadows to lengthen and reveal the secrets stored in its deep, historical soil.
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About This Long Ashton, Gloucestershire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Long Ashton, 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 Long Ashton includes coordinates 51.429596, -2.662395, 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 Long Ashton is available on the Long Ashton 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.