Longden, Shropshire Weather
About Longden, Shropshire
Longden watches over the expansive Shropshire plain, its red-brick chimneys and slate roofs catching the low, amber light that shifts across the fields each evening. It lies 4.8 miles south-west of Shrewsbury (from Shrewsbury: bearing 218°T, OS grid SJ 443 064), and is situated south-south-west of Annscroft village. The terrain here rises in measured swells, grounding Longden within a landscape of working hedgerows and heavy, iron-rich earth. A short distance to the west, the waters of Pontesford Brook trace a path through the valley floor, their movement providing a constant, rhythmic pulse to the local geography. Beyond the immediate pastures, the terrain climbs toward the rugged crests of Earl's Hill & Habberley Valley SSSI, where the air thins and the horizon opens into a wide, windswept expanse. Longden retains a quiet autonomy, its character shaped by the slow rotation of the seasons rather than the haste of modern transit. The architecture here speaks of endurance, with stone foundations and timber frames that have held fast against the prevailing westerlies for generations. Each lane in Longden leads eventually to the open country, where the silence is broken only by the sharp, sudden call of a buzzard circling above the ridge.
Flight conditions near Longden. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Longden and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Longden, Shropshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Longden, 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 Longden includes coordinates 52.653113, -2.824544, 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 Longden is available on the Longden 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.