Allowenshay emerges from the quiet Somerset landscape as a cluster of stone and slate held in the palm of the earth. It lies 2.3 miles east-south-east of Ilminster (from Ilminster: bearing 112°T, OS grid ST 392 133), and is situated south-south-west of Seavington St Mary village. Castles Hill rises to the west, its slopes catching the morning light that spills across the fields to illuminate the pale, weathered masonry of the local dwellings. Below this rise, the land dips toward the southern greenery where the hidden Langhills Goil carves a slow, deliberate path through the terrain. The air here holds a stillness that permits one to hear the faint, seasonal shift of wind against the hedges, a sound as old as the soil itself. Allowenshay maintains a modest, enduring presence, defined less by grand monuments than by the honest texture of its lanes and the heavy, fertile scent of the surrounding orchards. The nearby Seavington St. Mary SSSI preserves a fragment of wilder character, ensuring that the botanical variety of the region remains as vivid as the changing seasons. Each day, the sun traverses the horizon with a steady, impartial grace, casting long shadows that trace the contours of a place content to remain outside the clamour of the modern world.
Flight conditions near Allowenshay. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Allowenshay and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Allowenshay, Somerset, 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. Coastal tide gauge readings are sourced from the Environment Agency National Tide Gauge Network in near real-time (15-minute updates), with marine wave and sea surface temperature data from the Open-Meteo Marine API. 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 Allowenshay includes coordinates 50.915996, -2.86541, in the county of Somerset, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Allowenshay is available on the Allowenshay map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Somerset 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.