Cricket St Thomas emerges from the rolling Somerset folds as a quiet concentration of stone and verdant parkland. It lies 3.1 miles east of Chard (from Chard: bearing 91°T, OS grid ST 370 084), and is situated north of Winsham village. The light here catches the limestone facades with a pale, buttery intensity, particularly as the sun descends toward the horizon. To the north-northeast, the slopes of Knoll Hill rise to watch over the lowlands, providing a natural horizon that guards the silence of the surrounding fields. Cricket House dominates the immediate landscape, its sprawling 273-hectare grounds acting as an ornamental lung for the hamlet. These historic gardens possess a deliberate, curated stillness that contrasts with the wilder, unmanaged growth found further out in the county. Cricket St Thomas maintains an air of permanence, where the weight of the past settles into the soil rather than drifting away. The air carries a crisp, clean scent of damp earth and crushed leaves, a sensory testament to the proximity of the woodland canopy.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Cricket St Thomas, 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 Cricket St Thomas includes coordinates 50.872047, -2.895536, 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 Cricket St Thomas is available on the Cricket St Thomas 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.