Mount Pleasant occupies a ridge of high ground that commands a long, lingering view over the folded topography of the Gloucestershire landscape. It lies 0.4 miles south-south-east of Cinderford (from Cinderford: bearing 165°T, OS grid SO 658 135). The houses here possess a stoic, industrial resilience, reflecting the grit of a region once defined by the deep extraction of coal and iron. Sunlight catches the slate roofs of Mount Pleasant during the late afternoon, casting sharp shadows that stretch toward the dense, encroaching canopy of the Crabtreehill Plantation. A short walk to the north brings one to the site of The Palace, a former cinema whose brickwork still holds the quiet ghosts of Saturday matinees and flickering silver screens. Below the road, the land dips away into the shadowed quietude of the valleys, where the air feels heavier and cooler against the skin. The rhythm of life in this corner of the Forest of Dean remains tethered to the terrain, marked by the slow reclamation of old mining tracks by moss and encroaching hawthorn. Here, the transition from the built environment to the wild woodland is abrupt, defined by sudden thickets and the persistent call of birds shifting between the branches.
Flight conditions near Mount Pleasant. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Mount Pleasant and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Mount Pleasant, 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 Mount Pleasant includes coordinates 51.819227, -2.496946, 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 Mount Pleasant is available on the Mount Pleasant 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.