Cradley, Herefordshire Weather
About Cradley, Herefordshire
Cradley commands a landscape of rolling orchards and heavy, fertile clay that has sustained generations of fruit growers. It lies 2.6 miles west-north-west of Great Malvern (from Great Malvern: bearing 289°T, OS grid SO 735 473), and is situated east-north-east of Westfield village. The architecture of Cradley reveals its long-standing connection to the land, featuring timber-framed cottages that appear to have grown directly from the dark, rich soil of the Herefordshire border. To the east, the slopes of Cockshot Hill rise with a quiet, stubborn permanence, offering a vantage point over the patchwork of fields that define the horizon. Winters here bring a thin, pale light that clarifies the contours of the terrain, sharpening the silhouette of the distant Malvern Hills against the grey expanse of the sky. Nearby, the protected habitat of Little Byefields Meadow Sssi preserves a fragile diversity of flora that thrives far from the reach of modern industry. The rhythm of life in Cradley remains tethered to the seasonal turn of the harvest, echoing a past where the labour of the orchard dictated the pulse of the day. Time seems to move with a deliberate, measured gravity here, indifferent to the hurried pace of the wider world.
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About This Cradley, Herefordshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Cradley, Herefordshire, 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. Soil temperature, soil moisture and evapotranspiration data are provided for agricultural planning in this village. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Cradley includes coordinates 52.123418, -2.387855, in the county of Herefordshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Cradley is available on the Cradley map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Herefordshire 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.