Eccles remains a quiet pocket of Kentish earth, defined by the slow, deliberate pulse of the Medway valley. It lies 1.8 miles east-south-east of Snodland (from Snodland: bearing 118°T, OS grid TQ 728 605), and is situated north of Aylesford village. The low light of dusk often catches the flint-strewn soil, revealing a landscape that has held human ambition for millennia. Deep beneath the modern surface, the Romano-British Villa, Anglo-Saxon Cemetery And Associated Remains At Eccles wait in the dark, silent clay. These buried foundations provide a heavy, grounded anchor to the fields that stretch toward the horizon. A short distance away, the Aylesford Pit Sssi exposes the raw, chalky geology that once dictated the fortunes of those who laboured here. Eccles keeps a modest profile, yet the weight of its ancient geography presses upward through the grass and into the cool, damp air of the morning. Today, Eccles exists as a place where the modern world brushes against the quiet, enduring bones of the past.
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Live animated radar for Eccles and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Eccles, Kent, 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. 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 Eccles includes coordinates 51.318063, 0.478895, in the county of Kent, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Eccles is available on the Eccles map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Kent 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.