Blaston commands a quiet ridge in the rolling pastures of Leicestershire, where the horizon stretches wide under a vast, pale sky. It lies 4.6 miles west-south-west of Uppingham (from Uppingham: bearing 237°T, OS grid SP 805 955), and is situated south-east of Hallaton village. The land here holds the memory of deeper centuries, particularly where the earth bears the faint, grass-covered indentations of the manorial site west of St Giles’s Church. These hummocks and hollows suggest a time when the rhythm of life was dictated entirely by the turning of the soil and the tolling of a bell. To the east, the Eye Brook Valley Woods SSSIs offer a dense, tangled contrast to the open fields, where the light filters through ancient boughs to touch the damp floor. Blaston remains a place of deliberate stillness, defined by the weight of stone and the long, slow shadows cast by the afternoon sun. The air carries an earthy clarity, sharpened by the distance between the neighbouring farmsteads. Even the modern sounds of the nearby Nevill Holt Opera House seem to dissipate quickly, leaving Blaston to its own solitary, enduring pace.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Blaston, Leicestershire, 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. Soil temperature, soil moisture and evapotranspiration data are provided for agricultural planning in this hamlet. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Blaston includes coordinates 52.551599, -0.814029, in the county of Leicestershire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Blaston is available on the Blaston map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Leicestershire 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.