Stanton Long holds the quiet gravity of a place fashioned from the stubborn limestone and clay of the Shropshire earth. It lies 6.5 miles south-south-west of Much Wenlock (from Much Wenlock: bearing 208°T, OS grid SO 572 906), and is situated south of Brockton village. Trow Brook runs silently just to the west, its waters carving a thin, silver vein through the heavy pastures that define the local horizon. The light here catches the stone of the older farmsteads, turning grey masonry into something brittle and luminous under a wide, shifting sky. A short distance away, the grass-covered earthworks of the Holdgate Castle Motte and Bailey recall a time when the landscape was held under a sharper, more martial gaze. Stanton Long remains defined by these echoes of the past, where the rhythm of the seasons dictates the pace of life more than the ticking of a clock. The surrounding fields, rich and deep, carry the scent of turned earth and damp clover, grounding the spirit in the physical reality of the soil. Each lane leading away from Stanton Long offers a view of a countryside that feels both untamed and perfectly, deliberately ordered.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Stanton Long, 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 Stanton Long includes coordinates 52.511811, -2.631019, 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 Stanton Long is available on the Stanton Long 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.