Oliver's Battery, Hampshire Weather
About Oliver's Battery, Hampshire
Oliver's Battery commands a high, chalky ridge that looks out over the ancient, rolling topography of Hampshire. It lies 2.0 miles west-south-west of Winchester (from Winchester: bearing 238°T, OS grid SU 456 276), and is situated north-north-west of Compton village. The horizon here is defined by the sharp, clean light of the South Downs, which catches the pale flintwork of local garden walls and turns the evening sky a bruised, metallic violet. A short walk to the east-north-east leads to the Iron Age enclosure of Oliver Cromwell’s Battery, where the earthworks still hold the quiet, stubborn memory of a Civil War encampment. Beyond these fortifications, the land falls away into a landscape where the air feels thin and sharp, carrying the scent of dry grass and crushed limestone. To the south, the slopes of Yew Hill rise to meet the clouds, offering a wide, green silence that persists despite the proximity of modern roads. Oliver's Battery remains a place of elevation, where the architecture of the present moment rests lightly upon a foundation of deep, prehistoric stone.
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About This Oliver's Battery, Hampshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Oliver's Battery, 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 Oliver's Battery includes coordinates 51.046395, -1.350233, 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 Oliver's Battery is available on the Oliver's Battery 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.