Dunburgh emerges from the flat, damp expanse of the Waveney Valley as a quiet collection of dwellings defined by the low, insistent pull of the river. It lies 1.2 miles north-west of Beccles (from Beccles: bearing 306°T, OS grid TM 405 915), and is situated west-south-west of Gillingham village. The horizon here is dominated by the gentle rise of Dunburgh Hill, which catches the pale, bruised light of late afternoon as it stretches toward the water. Beyond the immediate cluster of homes, the Geldeston Meadows SSSI provides a wide, marshy stage where the grass turns brittle and silver under the weight of winter frost. These wetlands hold a stillness that seems to swallow the distant, mechanical hum of the modern world, leaving only the sound of reed-beds shivering in the wind. To the south-west, the landscape carries the heavy, melancholic memory of the moated site of Barsham Hall, where the earth still holds the jagged outlines of a lost medieval ambition. Dunburgh remains anchored to this ancient, sodden geography, where the boundary between solid land and water is perpetually blurred by the shifting tide of the seasons.
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EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Dunburgh, Norfolk, 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. 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 Dunburgh includes coordinates 52.468563, 1.539438, in the county of Norfolk, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Dunburgh is available on the Dunburgh map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Norfolk 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.