Hopton Wafers, Shropshire Weather
About Hopton Wafers, Shropshire
Hopton Wafers stretches across the Shropshire landscape, where the air holds a crisp, lingering quality that seems to catch the low, amber light of late afternoon. It lies 2.2 miles west of Cleobury Mortimer (from Cleobury Mortimer: bearing 281°T, OS grid SO 636 763), and is situated south-east of Hoptonbank village. The terrain here rises with a quiet, stubborn insistence, shaped by the ancient, persistent flow of Welling’s Brook as it carves its path through the verdant, rolling floor of the valley. To the east, the ruins of the Woodhouse Moated Friary of Hopton Wafers offer a silent, stone-hewn echo of a monastic past, partially hidden by the encroaching shadows of the hedgerows. Beyond these remnants, the land climbs toward the rugged, open expanse of Catherton Common, where the wind carries the scent of wild heather and the ghosts of former coal mining activities. Hopton Wafers retains a distinct character defined by these remnants of industry and the persistent, unyielding nature of the surrounding hills. The horizon is marked by the distant, steady silhouettes of Silvington Hill and Magpie Hill, which command the skyline with an indifferent, stony majesty. Every path and boundary in Hopton Wafers feels dictated by the topography, creating a sense of isolation that is both profound and deeply grounding.
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About This Hopton Wafers, Shropshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Hopton Wafers, 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 Hopton Wafers includes coordinates 52.384373, -2.534991, 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 Hopton Wafers is available on the Hopton Wafers 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.