Lawton reveals itself as a quiet assembly of dwellings amidst the verdant, rolling expanses of Herefordshire. It lies 3.2 miles west of Leominster (from Leominster: bearing 274°T, OS grid SO 445 594), and is situated south-east of Shirl Heath village. The landscape here is defined by a slow, deliberate quality of light that seems to linger upon the hedgerows and fallow fields with a heavy, golden patience. A short distance to the north, the earth rises in subtle defiance at the site of Kingsland Castle, where the ghosts of medieval fortifications remain held in the grip of overgrown banks. Lawton maintains a peripheral connection to these older, martial echoes, yet its own character remains stubbornly tethered to the rhythm of the surrounding agricultural plains. The nearby greenery of Monkland Common offers a respite of open space, where the air possesses a crisp, sharpened clarity that clears the mind of urban clutter. Lawton exists as a modest punctuation mark in the wide, green prose of the West Midlands, indifferent to the haste of the modern world.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Lawton, 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 other settlement. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Lawton includes coordinates 52.230639, -2.813441, 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 Lawton is available on the Lawton 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.