Williamscot emerges from the Oxfordshire landscape as a collection of honey-coloured stone dwellings that catch the low, slanted light of late afternoon. It lies 3.4 miles north-north-east of Banbury (from Banbury: bearing 25°T, OS grid SP 480 455), and is situated west-south-west of Wardington village. The land here slopes with a quiet, persistent gravity toward the watercourses that define the local topography. To the north, the terrain bears the silent memory of the Battle Of Cropredy Bridge 1644, where the damp earth once absorbed the clamour of civil strife. Williamscot maintains a sequestered character, its lanes bordered by ancient walls that seem to exhale the warmth they have gathered through the summer months. The nearby Chacombe Brook traces a wandering path through the fields, its presence marked by the silver flash of willows and the deepening of the evening shadows. High-gabled houses of local ironstone anchor the horizon, grounding the hamlet firmly in the geology of the Cherwell district. One finds that the air here holds a particular stillness, undisturbed by the modern velocity of the world beyond its borders.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Williamscot, 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 Williamscot includes coordinates 52.106056, -1.29966, 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 Williamscot is available on the Williamscot 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.