Upper Dowdeswell, Gloucestershire Weather
About Upper Dowdeswell, Gloucestershire
Upper Dowdeswell remains a quiet collection of honey-coloured stone dwellings held fast against the limestone slopes of the Cotswolds. It lies 4.2 miles east-south-east of Cheltenham (from Cheltenham: bearing 117°T, OS grid SP 008 194), and is situated south-south-west of Whittington village. The land here rises and falls with a deliberate, heavy grace, where the light in late autumn bleaches the fields into a pale, ascetic grey. A mere 0.3 miles to the south-south-west, the earthworks of the Camp At Upper Dowdeswell trace a jagged, ancient perimeter that has long since surrendered its tactical purpose to the grazing of sheep. Further west, the vast, formal grounds of Dowdeswell Court anchor the horizon, their manicured permanence contrasting with the wilder, unkempt thickets that border the local lanes. Beyond the immediate perimeter, the dark, dense canopy of Lineover Wood Sssi draws a sharp, bruised line against the sky, tempering the wind that sweeps across the plateau. Upper Dowdeswell possesses a singular, austere beauty, defined not by grand architecture but by the way the weather scours the grit from its walls. The silence here is physical, broken only by the sharp, metallic click of farm machinery or the distant, rhythmic lowing of cattle in the damp valley bottom.
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About This Upper Dowdeswell, Gloucestershire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Upper Dowdeswell, 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 Upper Dowdeswell includes coordinates 51.873756, -1.989321, 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 Upper Dowdeswell is available on the Upper Dowdeswell 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.