Swannington, Leicestershire Weather
About Swannington, Leicestershire
Swannington reveals its character through the rugged remnants of its coal-mining past, where the earth still bears the quiet weight of industrial toil beneath a verdant veneer. It lies 1.9 miles north-west of Coalville (from Coalville: bearing 324°T, OS grid SK 415 162), and is situated south-west of Thringstone village. The landscape rises into gentle heights, most notably near Red Hill, where the horizon broadens to catch the fleeting, pale light of the East Midlands sky. High above the tracks and lanes, the solitary silhouette of Hough Tower Mill stands as a sentinel, its masonry recording the changing winds that have swept across these fields for generations. Broad Hill offers a vantage point from which one might observe how the terrain dips and swells, reflecting a geology shaped by centuries of extraction and subsequent reclamation. Swannington maintains a quiet composure, its historical narrative forged in the deep seams of the ground rather than the grandiosity of monumental architecture. The air here holds a clarity that softens the transition between the working history of the shafts and the present stillness of the woods. One finds that the endurance of Swannington resides in this dialogue between the scarred earth and the slow, persistent return of the meadow.
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About This Swannington, Leicestershire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Swannington, 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 Swannington includes coordinates 52.742532, -1.386483, 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 Swannington is available on the Swannington 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.