West Meon occupies a verdant pocket of the Hampshire countryside, where the landscape rises in soft, chalky swells to greet the open sky. It lies 6.2 miles south-south-east of New Alresford (from New Alresford: bearing 149°T, OS grid SU 641 241), and is situated east-north-east of Warnford village. The gentle light of the South Downs National Park washes over the local architecture, lending a pale, luminous quality to the flint and brickwork of the cottages. Just a short walk from the centre, the earth holds the quiet secrets of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery and a Bronze Age ring ditch, marking a place where ancient inhabitants once looked out across the same rolling horizons. The air here carries a crisp, clean clarity, often stirred by the breeze moving over the nearby Lippen Wood Roman Villa. West Meon retains a dignified character, its lanes winding with an intentional grace that reflects the slow, deliberate pace of the surrounding agricultural fields. Visitors might find their gaze drawn to the quiet beauty of the Meon Valley, where the terrain provides a stark, honest contrast to the more crowded reaches of the county. In the evening, the shadows lengthen across the grass, grounding the structures of West Meon firmly within a history that feels both distant and immediate.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for West Meon, 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 West Meon includes coordinates 51.013223, -1.086834, 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 West Meon is available on the West Meon 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.