Shatterling reveals itself through a low-lying horizon where the damp earth exhales the scent of ancient, iron-rich silt. It lies 4.5 miles west of Sandwich (from Sandwich: bearing 275°T, OS grid TR 258 585), and is situated east-north-east of Wingham village. The morning light here often catches the pale, translucent mist rising from the nearby Wingham River, drifting across the fields like a phantom tide seeking the sea. Beyond the quiet lanes, the gentle elevation of Broom Hill guards the western approach, offering a vantage point over the patchwork of fields that define the local agricultural character. Shatterling remains a place of quiet endurance, where the heavy, clay-heavy soil dictates the slow pace of the seasons. The nearby Wingham Wildlife Park acts as a strange, living counterpoint to the stillness, occasionally carrying the distant, guttural echoes of exotic creatures across the flatlands. This proximity to such diverse natural pockets imbues the landscape with a sense of hidden movement, as if the land itself is holding its breath between the shadows of the hills and the steady pulse of the water.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Shatterling, 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 Shatterling includes coordinates 51.280899, 1.23683, 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 Shatterling is available on the Shatterling 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.