Seed remains a quiet fragment of the Kentish landscape, where the earth seems to hold the memory of ancient chalk beneath its topsoil. It lies 5.0 miles south-south-east of Sittingbourne (from Sittingbourne: bearing 154°T, OS grid TQ 944 566), and is situated east-south-east of Doddington village. The horizon here is defined by the steady, rolling climb of the land toward Sprats Hill, a rise that catches the morning light in long, pale ribbons of gold. To the north, the meticulously kept grounds of Doddington Place offer a stark contrast to the wilder, unmanicured hedgerows that border the narrow lanes of Seed. Local life here is quiet, dictated by the slow turning of the seasons rather than the clamour of modern industry. The air holds a sharpness in the winter, smelling faintly of damp flint and cold, turned earth. Walking the paths near Ashdown Hill, one encounters a silence so absolute that it feels like a physical weight against the skin. Seed persists as a place where the geography dictates the pace of existence, ensuring that the passage of time is felt only in the lengthening of shadows across the fields.
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Live animated radar for Seed and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Seed, 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 Seed includes coordinates 51.27564, 0.786336, 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 Seed is available on the Seed 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.