Cropton, North Yorkshire Weather
About Cropton, North Yorkshire
Cropton commands a high, airy ridge where the North York Moors National Park spills its wild, heather-bruised light across the rolling fields. It lies 4.1 miles north-west of Pickering (from Pickering: bearing 325°T, OS grid SE 758 894), and is situated east-north-east of Appleton-le-Moors village. Beneath the turf, the earth retains the heavy, slumbering silhouette of the motte and bailey castle at Cropton Hall Garth, a reminder of a time when this high ground served as a sentinel over the surrounding dales. The wind here carries a crisp, unadorned clarity, sweeping past the ancient stone of the standing cross in the churchyard of St Gregory's Church as if trying to scour the centuries from its weathered face. Cropton looks out toward the distant, soft blue contours of the landscape, where the land falls away into the hidden, verdant creases of the countryside. Small lanes thread through the site, linking the quiet dwellings that cling to the horizon like limpet shells on a cliff. In the late afternoon, the sun catches the silvered edges of the clouds, casting long, lean shadows that stretch toward the nearby slopes of Hallgarth Hill. This topography defines the character of Cropton, a place where the architecture of the past is held firmly in the grip of a restless, wide-open sky.
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About This Cropton, North Yorkshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Cropton, North Yorkshire, 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. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Cropton includes coordinates 54.294839, -0.836843, in the county of North Yorkshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Cropton is available on the Cropton map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the North Yorkshire 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.