Durns Town breathes under the vast, shifting skies of the Hampshire heathland, where the horizon feels both intimate and infinite. It lies 3.2 miles north-west of Lymington (from Lymington: bearing 308°T, OS grid SZ 282 986), and is situated east-north-east of Sway village. Durns Town occupies a quiet corner within the New Forest National Park, where the land holds the stillness of ancient earth beneath a canopy of wandering light. To the north-east, the shallow dip of Widden Bottom draws the eye across a landscape that resists the clamour of the modern world. Bronze Age barrows rise like low, earthen sighs from the surrounding fields, marking the ground where Durns Town keeps its silent company with the past. The air here carries the sharp, clean scent of gorse and damp bracken, a fragrance that clings to the coat of the walker long after the path has been left behind. Sunlight often catches the edges of the nearby Sway Lakes, turning the water into fleeting shards of silver amidst the deep greens of the forest boundary. Life in Durns Town moves with the deliberate pace of the seasons, tethered to the rhythmic demands of the wild heaths that press against its borders.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Durns Town, Hampshire, 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. Coastal tide gauge readings are sourced from the Environment Agency National Tide Gauge Network in near real-time (15-minute updates), with marine wave and sea surface temperature data from the Open-Meteo Marine API. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Durns Town includes coordinates 50.78696, -1.599933, in the county of Hampshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Durns Town is available on the Durns Town map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Hampshire 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.