Small Hythe carries the lingering memory of salt tides that once climbed the Rother levels to reach its ancient, bustling wharves. It lies 2.1 miles south-south-east of Tenterden (from Tenterden: bearing 162°T, OS grid TQ 893 301), and is situated north of Wittersham village. Today, the landscape holds a quiet stillness where the water has long retreated, leaving behind the rich, heavy silt of the flatlands. Smallhythe Place stands as a timber-framed sentinel of this former maritime life, housing the legacy of the actress Ellen Terry within its weathered, ochre walls. Beyond the garden gate, the low light of late afternoon stretches across the fields, illuminating the path where the river once turned the wheels of trade. The nearby Reading Sewer ribbons through the marsh, a modest vein of water that traces the ghost of a wider, deeper channel. Here, the horizon remains wide and unencumbered, allowing the wind to sweep across the pastures with an unfiltered, bracing clarity. Small Hythe endures as a place where the earth remembers the sea, even as the wild grasses reclaim the ground where ships once moored.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Small Hythe, 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 Small Hythe includes coordinates 51.039132, 0.699188, 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 Small Hythe is available on the Small Hythe 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.