Clipsham, Rutland Weather
About Clipsham, Rutland
Clipsham presents a limestone countenance to the world, its architecture hewn from the very earth upon which its houses rest. It lies 6.7 miles north-north-west of Stamford (from Stamford: bearing 329°T, OS grid SK 970 161), and is situated east of Stretton village. The local stone, prized for its pale, honeyed warmth, has been extracted for centuries, leaving behind the jagged, silent scars of the Clipsham Old Quarry And Pickworth Great Wood SSSI. These excavations have softened into nature’s own amphitheatre, where the sharp edges of industry have surrendered to moss and encroaching scrub. Beyond the quarry, the landscape broadens into the quiet, ancient expanse of Pickworth Great Wood, where the trees stand with a deliberate, slow-motion gravity. Clipsham itself maintains a poise that seems indifferent to the frantic pace of the modern age, anchored by the sturdy, unpretentious elegance of its vernacular dwellings. The light here catches the high, iron-rich walls, turning the afternoon shadows into long, cool pools of grey. Even the proximity of Stretton Lakes provides only a soft, reflective murmuring to the silence that defines the surrounding fields. Time in Clipsham does not tick so much as it settles, layer upon layer, like the sedimentary rock beneath the roots of the oaks.
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About This Clipsham, Rutland Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Clipsham, Rutland, 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 Clipsham includes coordinates 52.734636, -0.564024, in the county of Rutland, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Clipsham is available on the Clipsham map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Rutland 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.