Witham Friary, Somerset Weather
About Witham Friary, Somerset
Witham Friary holds the quiet, lingering silence of a place once governed by the strict discipline of Carthusian monks. It lies 4.9 miles south-south-west of Frome (from Frome: bearing 202°T, OS grid ST 746 406), and is situated south of Trudoxhill village. The landscape here breathes through the low, green shoulders of Bean Hill, where the morning light catches the dew on the grass before it touches the valley floor. Stone walls trace the boundaries of fields that have been worked for centuries, their grey faces softening under a persistent growth of lichen. A mile to the north-east, the earth still keeps the faint, sunken outlines of Witham Priory, marking the site where a medieval sanctuary once commanded the local spirit. Visitors often pause near the ancient church, where the air feels heavy with the weight of departed bells and the memory of monastic labour. Beyond the immediate gardens, the dark, tangled canopy of Postlebury Wood Sssi provides a sanctuary for owls and shadows alike, undisturbed by the modern rush of the nearby roads. Witham Friary remains a place of damp earth and deep, enduring stillness, where the sky seems wider and more attentive than it does in the busier reaches of Somerset.
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About This Witham Friary, Somerset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Witham Friary, 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 Witham Friary includes coordinates 51.164806, -2.364424, 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 Witham Friary is available on the Witham Friary 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.