Howton emerges from the quiet, low-lying folds of the Herefordshire landscape as a singular collection of stone and earth. It lies 8.9 miles south-west of Hereford (from Hereford: bearing 221°T, OS grid SO 413 292), and is situated south-west of Wormbridge village. The land here holds the weight of centuries, marked by the silent, grass-grown mound of the Motte Castle 100M North East Of Howton Farm, which watches over the fields like a forgotten thought. Beyond the farmsteads, the horizon is anchored by the steady incline of Mount Hill, a rise that catches the pale, searching light of the Welsh borders. The Worm Brook carves a persistent, silver path through the meadows nearby, its water moving with a cold, glassy clarity that defines the local drainage of the valley. Howton remains a place of slow, agricultural patience, where the soil dictates the rhythm of the days. The proximity of the ruins of Dore Abbey, though distant enough to remain a shadow on the landscape, lends a gravity to the surrounding fields. Every fence line and hedgerow in Howton seems to clarify the relationship between the human hand and the stubborn, enduring clay of the region.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Howton, 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 hamlet. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Howton includes coordinates 51.958353, -2.855319, 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 Howton is available on the Howton 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.