Penshurst, Kent Weather
About Penshurst, Kent
Penshurst preserves a landscape of honey-coloured stone and timbered frames that seem to hold the low, amber light of the Weald with a peculiar, heavy gravity. It lies 3.4 miles west of Southborough (from Southborough: bearing 280°T, OS grid TQ 524 433), and is situated south of Chiddingstone Causeway village. The ancient stone of the Historic Market Place near the centre marks a point where time feels less like a river and more like a pool, still and undisturbed by the frantic pace of the modern age. Beyond the clustered hearths, the expansive grounds of Penshurst Place stretch toward the horizon, their 189 hectares of parkland offering a formal elegance that has defined the local horizon since the fourteenth century. The air here carries the damp, earthy scent of the Medway valley, an atmosphere that often clings to the timbered eaves of the cottages long after the morning mist has retreated. To the south, the sharp rise of Saint’s Hill provides a vantage point where the patchwork of Kentish fields appears as a brittle, green mosaic. Penshurst remains a place of quiet endurance, where the architecture of the past is not merely preserved but inhabited with a steady, unbothered grace. Every chimney stack and garden wall contributes to a silence so profound it invites the listener to measure the very pulse of the valley.
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EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Penshurst, Kent Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Penshurst, 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 Penshurst includes coordinates 51.169514, 0.179059, 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 Penshurst is available on the Penshurst 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.