Over Worton, Oxfordshire Weather
About Over Worton, Oxfordshire
Over Worton remains a quiet testament to the enduring limestone geology of the North Oxfordshire landscape, where the earth seems to hold a pale, reflective light even on the most overcast afternoons. It lies 7.3 miles south-south-west of Banbury (from Banbury: bearing 193°T, OS grid SP 432 291), and is situated west-north-west of Duns Tew village. The horizon here is defined by subtle swells of terrain, such as the distant rise of Hangman's Hill, which catches the fading sun long after the lower pastures have slipped into shadow. Immediately north of the church graveyard, the earth rises in a deliberate, man-made curve where an Anglo-Saxon burial mound marks the passage of centuries beneath the quiet grass. Over Worton maintains a sparse, agrarian character, its stone cottages built from the local oolitic rock that turns a soft, bruised honey colour when the rain passes. The surrounding fields are punctuated by the remnants of older civilisations, including the earthworks of Ilbury Camp Hillfort, which suggest a long-standing human preference for these elevated, windswept ridges. Life here moves with the slow, seasonal calibration of the arable land, detached from the frantic pace of the larger arteries of transport nearby. This sense of stillness is rarely broken, allowing the wind to carry only the sound of distant farm machinery or the sharp, singular call of a bird circling above the limestone walls.
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About This Over Worton, Oxfordshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Over Worton, 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 Over Worton includes coordinates 51.958868, -1.371388, 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 Over Worton is available on the Over Worton 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.