Checkendon, Oxfordshire Weather
About Checkendon, Oxfordshire
Checkendon exhales a quiet authority from its position high upon the chalky spine of the Chiltern Hills. It lies 5.3 miles south-east of Wallingford (from Wallingford: bearing 137°T, OS grid SU 666 832), and is situated west-south-west of Stoke Row village. Ancient woodland presses close to the flint-walled cottages, where the pale, granular light of the Oxfordshire plateau catches the lichen on old roofs. A short distance away, the dark, reflective surface of Lovegrove's Pond holds the stillness of the surrounding beech hangers, mirroring a sky that feels broader here than in the valleys below. The parish church of St Peter and St Paul anchors the landscape with its sturdy Norman arch, a silent witness to centuries of slow agricultural cycles. Beyond the lanes, the ground dips towards the hidden basin of Splashall Bottom, where the air grows heavy and cool in the late afternoon. Checkendon retains a stubborn, pastoral composure, indifferent to the hurried transit of the modern world. The local clay and flint have dictated the shape of the architecture, ensuring that every structure seems to rise naturally from the earth itself.
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About This Checkendon, Oxfordshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Checkendon, Oxfordshire, 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 Checkendon includes coordinates 51.54445, -1.04097, in the county of Oxfordshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Checkendon is available on the Checkendon map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Oxfordshire 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.