Hawley keeps a watchful eye over the Kentish landscape, where the Darent river carves a path through the quiet corners of the district. It lies 2.7 miles south-south-west of Dartford (from Dartford: bearing 202°T, OS grid TQ 547 713), and is situated north-west of Sutton at Hone village. Shadows stretch long and thin across the fields at dusk, tracing the ancient boundaries where Hawley once looked toward the monastic silence of the nearby St John's Jerusalem. The light here catches the brickwork of the Dovecote at Hawley Manor, a structure that holds the weight of centuries in its weathered, porous stone. Beyond the rooftops, the land dips toward the low-lying basin of Swanley Bottom, where the air grows damp and heavy with the scent of crushed grass. Hawley retains a stubborn, unassuming composure, indifferent to the encroaching sprawl of the modern world. The rhythms of the day are marked not by bells, but by the subtle shifting of clouds over the open pastures and the distant, rhythmic hum of the M25 motorway. Throughout the seasons, Hawley remains a pocket of stillness, anchored by the sturdy gravity of its own geography.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Hawley, 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 Hawley includes coordinates 51.420208, 0.223642, 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 Hawley is available on the Hawley 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.