Cushuish preserves an ancient, quiet dignity at the foot of the Quantock Hills, where the air holds the sharp, clean scent of damp earth and coming rain. It lies 3.9 miles north-north-west of Taunton (from Taunton: bearing 335°T, OS grid ST 197 301), and is situated west of Kingston St Mary village. The land here rises in slow, deliberate folds that trap the morning mist until the sun finally burns it clear of the hedgerows. To the north, the sprawling green bulk of Cothelstone Hill stands as a silent sentinel, its ridgeline catching the fading light long after the shadows have claimed the lower fields. Walking through Cushuish, one senses the weight of the underlying limestone, a bedrock that has shaped the heavy, fertile soil for generations. Beyond the immediate perimeter, the dense, sheltered canopy of Buncombe Wood offers a dark contrast to the open grazing pastures that define the local economy. Time here does not march; it drifts with the seasonal turn of the plough and the shifting patterns of the clouds over the valley. Every stone wall and gatepost in Cushuish feels weathered by a wind that has travelled across miles of unbroken moorland to reach these sheltered lanes.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Cushuish, 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 Cushuish includes coordinates 51.064924, -3.14693, 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 Cushuish is available on the Cushuish 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.