The Leys emerges from the Herefordshire landscape as a quiet collection of dwellings defined by the slow, deliberate turning of the agricultural seasons. It lies 2.2 miles west-north-west of Ledbury (from Ledbury: bearing 289°T, OS grid SO 677 387), and is situated east-north-east of Putley Green village. Low-lying hedgerows and ancient orchard boundaries trace the perimeter of The Leys, where the air often holds the crisp, metallic scent of damp earth and coming frost. To the east, the heavy, earthwork ramparts of Wall Hills Camp stand as a silent sentinel over the valley, reminding the modern eye of how long this soil has been held by those who watched the horizon. Water flows nearby through the modest channel of Stores Brook, carving a soft, persistent path through the clay that has sustained the local rhythm of work for generations. The light here catches the grey stone of older outbuildings in the late afternoon, sharpening the shadows against the muted greens of the surrounding meadows. Life in The Leys remains tethered to these small, physical realities, where the turning of a gate or the sudden flight of a crow across the fields carries more weight than the noise of the wider world.
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Live animated radar for The Leys and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for The Leys, 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 The Leys includes coordinates 52.046253, -2.471422, 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 The Leys is available on the The Leys 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.