Scrainwood emerges from the Northumberland landscape as a collection of quiet, resilient stone structures weathered by the relentless North Sea winds. It lies 6.4 miles north-west of Rothbury (from Rothbury: bearing 319°T, OS grid NT 989 095), and is situated north of Netherton village. The land here slopes with a deliberate, heavy grace, falling away toward the cold, clear waters of Spartley Burn that vein the earth to the north-west. To the west, the slopes of Ewe Hill rise like a dark shoulder against the horizon, anchoring the hamlet in a geography of ancient, unyielding rock. Scrainwood retains a skeletal stillness, where the grey light of afternoon clings to the drystone walls and the sparse, hardy grass. Beyond the immediate fields, the remnants of Alnham Castle stand as a jagged memory of border turbulence, a fragment of masonry that refuses to surrender to the encroaching moss. The air carries a crisp, metallic edge, sharpening the silhouette of the high ground and defining the precise, lonely boundaries of this high-country life.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Scrainwood, Northumberland, 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 Scrainwood includes coordinates 55.379548, -2.017584, in the county of Northumberland, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Scrainwood is available on the Scrainwood map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Northumberland 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.