Chirbury, Shropshire Weather
About Chirbury, Shropshire
Chirbury holds the quiet authority of a place where the border between England and Wales has blurred into a landscape of soft, rolling pastures. It lies 7.1 miles north-north-west of Bishop's Castle (from Bishop's Castle: bearing 327°T, OS grid SO 262 984), and is situated west-north-west of Priest Weston village. The eye is drawn to the skeletal remains of Chirbury Priory, where the dissolution of 1535 left only echoes of stone amongst the long grasses. Nearby, the earth rises in subtle, deliberate humps where the Mercian-era Chirbury Fort once commanded the horizon against shifting tides of power. The light here seems to catch on the ancient masonry, casting long, thoughtful shadows that stretch toward the low ridges of the Vale of Montgomery. Life in Chirbury moves with the slow, seasonal pulse of the surrounding fields, far from the frantic pace of modern thoroughfares. A walker might find the silence broken only by the turn of a distant tractor or the sudden, sharp call of a bird circling the high ground. It is a place defined by its scars and its silences, where the weight of the past lingers in the cold, clear air of the borderlands.
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About This Chirbury, Shropshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Chirbury, Shropshire, 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 Chirbury includes coordinates 52.578486, -3.090285, in the county of Shropshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Chirbury is available on the Chirbury map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Shropshire 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.