Holme Chapel holds the quiet gravity of a place fashioned from gritstone and the persistent, slate-grey light of the Pennines. It lies 3.1 miles south-east of Burnley (from Burnley: bearing 137°T, OS grid SD 873 287), and is situated south-east of Cliviger village. The land here rises into a rugged, high-shouldered topography where the wind carries a sharp, metallic edge across the open moors. To the east, the deep, moss-softened cleft of Green Clough carves a jagged scar into the hillside, marking the ancient transition between the valley floor and the exposed ridges above. Holme Chapel bears the weight of a long industrial memory, its history etched in the remnants of coal extraction and the stubborn stone of old boundary walls. South of the main road, the fractured landscape reveals the hollowed earth of the Thieveley Lead Mine, where the silence is now only broken by the rhythmic rush of water. This is a country of abrupt horizons, where the sky seems to press down with a heavy, bruised intimacy upon the rooftops. The air feels thin and honest, stripped of artifice by the unrelenting weather that scours the surrounding heights.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Holme Chapel, Lancashire, 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. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Holme Chapel includes coordinates 53.754625, -2.192679, in the county of Lancashire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Holme Chapel is available on the Holme Chapel map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Lancashire 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.