Long Buckby emerges from the Northamptonshire landscape as a collection of ironstone cottages and slate roofs that hold the late afternoon sun with a stubborn, quiet warmth. It lies 4.6 miles north-east of Daventry (from Daventry: bearing 48°T, OS grid SP 627 675), and is situated north-east of Long Buckby Wharf village. Beneath the shifting clouds of the East Midlands, the earth retains the faint, ghostly contours of the Long Buckby Ringwork and Bailey, a memory of earthworks that once commanded the rise. Long Buckby carries the weight of a long-standing agricultural rhythm, where the horizon is defined not by grand spires, but by the steady, slow climb toward the rounded crest of Rockhall Hill. The air here feels heavy with the scent of damp soil and the distant, metallic hum of the railway line that has long served as a tether to the wider world. Residents pass through streets that curve with the natural impatience of old cart tracks, avoiding the rigid geometry of modern planning. Even in the greyest light, the grit of the local stone keeps the atmosphere sharp, resisting the softening blur of distance. Long Buckby remains a place of persistent, grounded endurance, where the wind pushes steadily over the fields to remind anyone watching that the land remains the final authority.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Long Buckby, 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 Long Buckby includes coordinates 52.302816, -1.080771, 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 Long Buckby is available on the Long Buckby 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.