Stockbury, Kent Weather
About Stockbury, Kent
Stockbury holds the quiet gravity of a chalk-down landscape, where the earth rises in slow, deliberate folds beneath the Kentish sky. It lies 4.0 miles south-east of Gillingham (from Gillingham: bearing 137°T, OS grid TQ 841 619), and is situated south of Lower Hartlip village. The light here often feels pale and translucent, filtering down to touch the ancient earthworks of the Ringwork and Baileys at Church Farm. These silent remnants of medieval fortification remain as subtle humps in the grass, guarding a history that has long since surrendered to the quiet grazing of sheep. Beyond these marks of man, the land falls away into the Stockbury Valley, a deep, verdant crease in the chalk that catches the mist as it rolls in from the distant estuary. Farmers still work the heavy soil in the fashion of their forebears, turning furrows that catch the amber glow of late afternoon. Winter brings a particular stillness to the lanes, where the wind whistles through bare hedgerows with a sharp, clean clarity. Stockbury remains a place where the horizon is defined not by steel or stone, but by the patient, recurring rhythm of the seasons.
Flight conditions near Stockbury. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Stockbury and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Stockbury, Kent Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Stockbury, 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 Stockbury includes coordinates 51.326707, 0.641687, 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 Stockbury is available on the Stockbury 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.