Minton emerges from the verdant folds of the Shropshire landscape like a quiet thought held between the hills. It lies 2.3 miles south-west of Church Stretton (from Church Stretton: bearing 216°T, OS grid SO 430 906), and is situated south-west of Little Stretton village. This tranquil hamlet finds its place within the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, where the light catches the limestone walls of old farmsteads as the sun begins its slow descent. To the west, the slopes of Shooter's Knoll rise sharply to meet the clouds, casting long, cool shadows that seem to anchor Minton to the earth. The ancient earthworks of the Motte Castle 80M North East Of Home Farm remain as a silent sentinel, a grassy mound witnessing the centuries drift by in the form of passing sheep and wandering hikers. The land here forms part of the Long Mynd Sssi, a rugged expanse where the wind carries the scent of heather and wild, unyielding grit. Life in Minton moves with the deliberate pace of the seasons, defined more by the shifting hues of the bracken than by the hurried pulse of the modern world.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Minton, 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 hamlet. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Minton includes coordinates 52.510838, -2.840886, 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 Minton is available on the Minton 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.