Kilton remains a quiet sentinel of Somerset, caught between the salt-thickened air of the Bristol Channel and the rolling slopes of the Quantock Hills. It lies 5.8 miles east of Watchet (from Watchet: bearing 85°T, OS grid ST 164 439), and is situated east-north-east of Kilve village. Sunlight here has a pale, watery quality, often catching the grey stone of the local architecture before dissipating into the heavy, damp fields. To the west, the skeletal, fourteenth-century remains of the Chantry at Kilve stand as a stark reminder of medieval devotion, watching over the land with a hollow, sightless gaze. Beyond these ruins, the terrain shifts into the protected expanse of the Ge-Mare Farm Fields, where the grasses bow rhythmically under the constant pressure of coastal winds. The horizon around Kilton is dominated by the expansive, silent presence of Fairfield, an ancient parkland that holds the echoes of centuries in its deep, untended shade. Life in Kilton moves with the slow, deliberate pulse of the changing seasons, far from the frantic pace of modern transport networks. It is a place where the earth feels heavy with its own history, grounding the soul in the simple, unadorned reality of the Somerset soil.
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Live animated radar for Kilton and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Kilton, 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 Kilton includes coordinates 51.188708, -3.196907, 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 Kilton is available on the Kilton 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.