Five Wents, Kent Weather
About Five Wents, Kent
Five Wents emerges from the Kentish landscape as a quiet intersection where the light seems to linger, caught in the low-slung branches of the surrounding orchards. It lies 4.3 miles south-east of Maidstone (from Maidstone: bearing 137°T, OS grid TQ 808 508), and is situated north-north-west of Warmlake village. The air here holds the damp, earthy scent of nearby Langley Loch, where the water mirrors the shifting grey skies of the South East with a glass-like stillness. To the east, the shadowed canopy of Abbey Wood provides a dense, verdant backdrop that marks the horizon with a sharp, jagged line of oaks. Five Wents occupies a position of unassuming transition, where the urgency of the nearby market town dissolves into the slow, deliberate pace of agricultural fields. During the autumn, the roads around the hamlet are often dusted with the debris of harvest, a reminder of the persistent connection between the soil and the local rhythm. Beyond the immediate view, the ruins of Sutton Valence Castle stand as a silent, stone sentinel, reminding those who pass that this terrain has been observed for centuries by more than just the crows. The character of Five Wents remains defined by these small, singular details, where the geography dictates a life of patience and quiet observation.
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Live animated radar for Five Wents and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Five Wents, Kent Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Five Wents, 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 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 Five Wents includes coordinates 51.22815, 0.58828, 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 Five Wents is available on the Five Wents 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.