Robin Hood remains a modest collection of dwellings caught in the quiet, green folds of the West Lancashire landscape. It lies 2.7 miles west-north-west of Standish (from Standish: bearing 288°T, OS grid SD 520 115), and is situated north-north-west of Appley Bridge village. The sharp morning light often catches the damp, dark earth of the nearby Boar’s Den Bowl Barrow, a prehistoric mark on the land that reminds the observer how long this ground has held human weight. From this vantage, the elevation shifts toward the slopes of Parbold Hill, where the wind carries a persistent, bracing chill across the open fields. Robin Hood sits far from the frantic pulse of industrial centres, defined instead by the slow, seasonal transition of hedges and the stubborn persistence of local farmsteads. The architecture here avoids grandiosity, favouring functional brickwork that absorbs the grey, heavy clouds rolling in from the Irish Sea. Footpaths branch away from the roadside like frayed threads, leading toward the dense, sheltered shade of the Fairy Glen where the air grows thick with the smell of wet moss and decaying leaves. Here, the silence is not an absence of sound, but a heavy, watchful presence that dictates the pace of the day.
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EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Robin Hood, 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 Robin Hood includes coordinates 53.598649, -2.72553, 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 Robin Hood is available on the Robin Hood 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.