Old wears the quiet mantle of the Northamptonshire uplands, where the sky seems to stretch wider over the limestone ridges. It lies 6.1 miles south-west of Kettering (from Kettering: bearing 236°T, OS grid SP 786 731), and is situated east-north-east of Scaldwell village. The light here catches the pale stone of the cottages, turning the afternoon shadows into long, cool fingers that reach across the lane. To the north, the earth bears the faint, hushed impressions of the medieval village of Faxton, where the ghosts of former hearths lie beneath the quiet grass. Old remains defined by its agricultural roots, a place where the wind carries the scent of turned soil and the distant, metallic chime of farm machinery. Beyond the edge of the houses, the horizon is punctuated by the expansive, reflective surface of Pitsford Water, which draws the clouds down to meet the reeds. The rhythm of life here is measured by the turning seasons rather than the ticking of a clock. In the silence of dusk, one might hear the call of a lapwing circling above the fields that have sustained Old for generations.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Old, 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 Old includes coordinates 52.350447, -0.846962, 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 Old is available on the Old 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.