Great Houghton, Northamptonshire Weather
About Great Houghton, Northamptonshire
Great Houghton holds a quiet, unassuming authority over the ridge that overlooks the Nene Valley. It lies 2.6 miles east-south-east of Northampton (from Northampton: bearing 116°T, OS grid SP 793 587), and is situated south-west of Little Houghton village. The landscape here is defined by a slow, rhythmic transition from the urban sprawl toward the open, heavy clay fields that have long dictated the pace of life. To the northeast, the earth rises at the Clifford Hill Motte Castle, a silent, grassy mound that serves as a sentinel over the water meadows below. Great Houghton retains a certain austerity in its stone architecture, where the ironstone buildings catch the low, slanted light of an English afternoon with a deep, burnt-orange glow. A short distance away, the waters of the Hardingstone Dyke trace a narrow, persistent line through the landscape, feeding the quiet gravity of the valley. The air here feels scrubbed clean by the winds blowing in from the wider Northamptonshire plateau, carrying the scent of damp earth and coming rain. Such persistence of place ensures that the modern world remains a distant hum rather than an encroaching shadow.
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About This Great Houghton, Northamptonshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Great Houghton, Northamptonshire, 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. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Great Houghton includes coordinates 52.22147, -0.839912, in the county of Northamptonshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Great Houghton is available on the Great Houghton map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Northamptonshire 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.