Well Hill, Kent Weather
About Well Hill, Kent
Well Hill occupies a high, chalky ridge that commands long views over the shifting greens of the Kentish landscape. It lies 3.2 miles south-south-west of Swanley (from Swanley: bearing 200°T, OS grid TQ 496 638), and is situated east of Maypole village. The eponymous Well Hill rises just half a mile to the south, its slopes catching a thin, pale light that seems to clarify the edges of every hawthorn hedge. Below these slopes, the ancient woodland of Lullingstone Park Sssi stretches out, a dense expanse where the air holds a cool, damp stillness even at high noon. The local ground is thin and flinty, forcing the trees to grip the earth with a stubborn, gnarled persistence. Silence often pools in the lanes surrounding Well Hill, broken only by the sharp, metallic call of a jay or the wind brushing against the dry grasses. Beyond the immediate rise, the wider horizon carries the quiet weight of the chalk downs, where the sky appears wider and more fragile than it does in the heavy, low-lying valleys. This terrain dictates a slow, deliberate pace of life, anchored by the soil and the persistent, unyielding geometry of the hills.
Flight conditions near Well Hill. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Well Hill and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Well Hill, Kent Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Well Hill, 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 Well Hill includes coordinates 51.353993, 0.147903, 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 Well Hill is available on the Well Hill 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.