Swingate, Nottinghamshire Weather
About Swingate, Nottinghamshire
Swingate rises from the Broxtowe landscape as a quiet witness to the changing fortunes of the Nottinghamshire coalfield. It lies 0.5 miles south-south-east of Kimberley (from Kimberley: bearing 165°T, OS grid SK 501 439). The terrain here holds a stubborn, industrial memory, where the earth still remembers the weight of the deep-seam workings that once powered the local economy. A short walk to the south-east leads to the rise of Windmill Hill, where the horizon broadens and the wind carries the sharp, clean scent of open fields. To the north, the hidden depths of the Kimberley Railway Cutting SSSI offer a sanctuary for rare flora, marking a sharp contrast to the rows of brick dwellings that characterise the domestic architecture. The light in Swingate often catches the soot-stained stone of older walls, turning them into pale, flickering silver during the golden hours of the late afternoon. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of a place that has long outlived its primary industry, relying instead on the steady pulse of the surrounding countryside. Even in the stillness of a winter morning, the geography of the district feels heavy with the echoes of men who once laboured beneath the soil.
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EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Swingate, Nottinghamshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Swingate, Nottinghamshire, 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. Soil temperature, soil moisture and evapotranspiration data are provided for agricultural planning in this village. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Swingate includes coordinates 52.990668, -1.254156, in the county of Nottinghamshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Swingate is available on the Swingate map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Nottinghamshire 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.