Pen-y-Coed commands a limestone ridge where the Shropshire earth rises to meet the shifting Welsh clouds. It lies 4.4 miles south-south-west of Croesoswallt (from Croesoswallt: bearing 197°T, OS grid SJ 269 230), and is situated north-west of Pant village. Sunlight catches the jagged, pale edges of the Llanymynech and Llynclys Hills SSSI, casting long, bruised shadows across the broken rock faces that define the local horizon. Ancient earthworks ripple beneath the grass nearby, where the Offa’s Dyke: Section 360Yds (330M) Long, Llynclys Hill stands as a silent, grassy spine against the sky. Pen-y-Coed maintains a quiet vigil over this high ground, its lanes winding through a landscape shaped by centuries of quarrying and pastoral toil. The air here holds a sharp, clean clarity, carrying the scent of damp bracken and the distant, metallic tang of cold stone. Such elevation grants the residents a perspective of vast, rolling horizons that seem to absorb the noise of the modern world. Every stone wall and gatepost in Pen-y-Coed reflects the enduring, rugged character of a borderland that refuses to be softened by the passage of the seasons.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Pen-y-Coed, 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 other settlement. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Pen-y-Coed includes coordinates 52.80021, -3.085248, 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 Pen-y-Coed is available on the Pen-y-Coed 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.