Merry Lees, Leicestershire Weather
About Merry Lees, Leicestershire
Merry Lees reveals itself as a quiet collection of dwellings tucked into the Leicestershire landscape, where the horizon stretches wide and unencumbered. It lies 4.2 miles east-north-east of Market Bosworth (from Market Bosworth: bearing 68°T, OS grid SK 469 057), and is situated west-north-west of Botcheston village. The terrain here holds a subtle, heavy stillness, shaped by the legacy of coal mining that once stirred the earth beneath these fields. To the north-west, the reclaimed ground of Bagworth Heath Woods invites a slow, observant walk through young timber and bracken. The light catches the surface of Thornton Reservoir nearby, turning the water into a sheet of hammered silver when the wind dies down. Merry Lees maintains a modest, unassuming presence, defined more by the rhythm of the changing seasons than by the noise of modern progress. History lingers in the local soil, marked by the faint, ancient indentations of a moated site that sits quietly just to the south. Such remnants of the past serve as a reminder that the land has long supported those who work its clay-heavy furrows.
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About This Merry Lees, Leicestershire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Merry Lees, 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 Merry Lees includes coordinates 52.647876, -1.307653, 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 Merry Lees is available on the Merry Lees 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.