Sutton Cheney preserves a quiet composure, anchored by the sturdy limestone of its parish church and the rhythmic persistence of agricultural life. It lies 1.8 miles south-south-east of Market Bosworth (from Market Bosworth: bearing 156°T, OS grid SK 417 005), and is situated south-south-west of Cadeby village. The landscape around Sutton Cheney stretches toward the horizon with a deliberate, open clarity that reveals the sharp edges of the terrain. To the west, the ancient Bowl Barrow At Sutton Cheney sits as a silent, earthen witness to centuries of passage, grounding the local topography in prehistoric stillness. Sunlight frequently catches the bronze surfaces of the nearby loyalte me lie sculpture, casting long, geometric shadows across the fields that once witnessed the final, bloody turbulence of the Plantagenet era. Visitors often traverse the path toward Bosworth Battlefield Country Park, where the air holds a persistent, heavy stillness as if the land itself remembers the weight of armoured men. This proximity to such significant history lends a gravity to the surroundings, balancing the mundane errands of modern life with the echoes of a fractured crown. The light here has a way of lingering on the hedgerows, gilding the autumn leaves with a sharp, cooling brilliance that marks the transition of the seasons.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Sutton Cheney, 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 village. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Sutton Cheney includes coordinates 52.601318, -1.384323, 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 Sutton Cheney is available on the Sutton Cheney 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.