Upper Slaughter, Gloucestershire Weather
About Upper Slaughter, Gloucestershire
Upper Slaughter holds the quiet weight of honey-coloured limestone against a sky that often feels wider than the earth itself. It lies 2.8 miles south-west of Stow-on-the-Wold (from Stow-on-the-Wold: bearing 235°T, OS grid SP 155 231), and is situated west-north-west of Lower Slaughter village. The River Eye traces a deliberate, silver path through the centre, cooling the air and softening the edges of the ancient stone cottages. Rising abruptly to the east, the Castle Mound serves as a silent witness to the centuries, its grassy slopes holding the ghosts of earthworks that long ago defined the local horizon. The light here catches the pale, porous walls of Upper Slaughter with a peculiar clarity, turning the architecture into something that mirrors the brightness of the surrounding fields. Beyond the immediate dwellings, the land rises toward the heights of Copse Hill, where the wind carries the scent of damp earth and distant, high-country grasses. This terrain remains a place of deliberate stillness, where the rhythm of the water and the permanence of the rock define the passing of the seasons. Upper Slaughter persists as a landscape of texture and shadow, where every garden wall and weathered roofline claims a quiet, unyielding authority over the Gloucestershire landscape.
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About This Upper Slaughter, Gloucestershire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Upper Slaughter, 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 Slaughter includes coordinates 51.906916, -1.775096, 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 Slaughter is available on the Upper Slaughter 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.