Kirk Smeaton keeps the quiet company of the River Went, its limestone bedrock drinking deep from the narrow valley floor. It lies 4.4 miles north-east of South Elmsall (from South Elmsall: bearing 41°T, OS grid SE 517 164), and is situated west-south-west of Little Smeaton village. Low morning light catches the pale stone of the cottages, turning the high street into a corridor of muted, honeyed warmth. To the west, the slopes of Castle Hill rise with a sturdy, ancient gravity, watching over the limestone grasslands of Brockadale SSSI. Here, the air holds a crisp, chalky sharpness, smelling faintly of damp earth and crushed clover after a rain. Kirk Smeaton maintains a steady, rhythmic pulse, tethered to the shifting seasons that color the surrounding fields in shades of ochre and deep, bruised green. The silence of the lane is punctuated only by the distant, rhythmic call of rooks circling above the canopy. Life here moves with a deliberate, unadorned grace, anchored by the enduring architecture that has weathered centuries of northern weather.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Kirk Smeaton, 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 Kirk Smeaton includes coordinates 53.642233, -1.218239, 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 Kirk Smeaton is available on the Kirk Smeaton 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.