Chantry wears the quiet gravity of a place where the limestone bedrock dictates the slow, deliberate pace of the seasons. It lies 3.8 miles west of Frome (from Frome: bearing 259°T, OS grid ST 715 468), and is situated south-south-west of Mells village. Ancient woodland defines the horizon, as much of the locality rests within the protected expanse of Asham Wood SSSI, where the canopy filters the morning light into sharp, silver needles. To the southeast, the still waters of Chantry Pond mirror the sky, offering a glass-like reprieve from the verdant, rolling contours of the surrounding Mendip foothills. The architecture speaks of a local industry once tied to the earth, with stone-built dwellings standing with a sturdy, unadorned honesty that ignores the passing of centuries. Nearby, the hidden valley of Dead Woman’s Bottom adds a melancholy note to the topography, its name echoing with the forgotten weight of local folklore. Chantry maintains a character distilled from this specific intersection of water, wood, and rock, holding its own silence against the insistent hum of the wider world.
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Live animated radar for Chantry and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Chantry, 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 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 Chantry includes coordinates 51.220412, -2.408249, 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 Chantry is available on the Chantry 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.