Golden light often pools across the flint-faced cottages of Ickham, revealing the stubborn, enduring character of its medieval architecture. It lies 2.9 miles east-south-east of Fordwich (from Fordwich: bearing 116°T, OS grid TR 222 579), and is situated south of Wickhambreaux village. The parish church, dedicated to St John the Evangelist, anchors the landscape with a brooding, grey stone tower that has watched over the surrounding pastures for centuries. A brief walk north-north-west leads to the Village Green, where the grass holds the morning dew with a quiet, persistent clarity. Beyond the domestic boundaries, the nearby Port Rill flows with a steady, rhythmic purpose, tracing lines through the low-lying fields. This waterway feeds the verdant expanse of the Horse Marsh, a wetland where the air feels heavy with the scent of damp earth and tall, swaying reeds. Ickham retains a stillness that feels untouched by the frantic pulse of the modern world, as if the very soil holds a memory of slower, more deliberate days. The horizon remains open and vast, allowing the shifting Kentish skies to dictate the mood of the fields below.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Ickham, 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 Ickham includes coordinates 51.277015, 1.185645, 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 Ickham is available on the Ickham 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.