Matshead, Lancashire Weather
About Matshead, Lancashire
Matshead remains a modest collection of dwellings where the Lancashire horizon stretches wide and unencumbered. It lies 3.4 miles south-east of Garstang (from Garstang: bearing 145°T, OS grid SD 522 409), and is situated north-east of Bilsborrow village. The landscape here gathers its character from the quiet passage of water, as Bull Brook meanders just to the south, carving a path through the fields with a persistent, low murmur. Heavy skies often drift over these pastures, casting a silver light that catches the wet grass and turns the hedgerows into dark, ink-drawn lines. Matshead keeps a steady watch over the rolling terrain, where the air tastes of damp earth and coming weather. Beyond the immediate fields, the ancient greenery of Rough Hey Wood Sssi rises to the north, offering a dense, shadowed refuge for local wildlife. The rhythm of life here follows the seasonal turning of the soil rather than the hum of distant traffic. It is a place of singular stillness, where the wind carries no echoes of the modern world, only the quiet breath of the countryside.
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About This Matshead, Lancashire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Matshead, 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 Matshead includes coordinates 53.862743, -2.72693, 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 Matshead is available on the Matshead 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.