Alton, Staffordshire Weather
About Alton, Staffordshire
Alton commands the rugged heights of the Staffordshire Moorlands, where the Churnet Valley carves a deep, serpentine path through the gritstone earth. It lies 3.9 miles east of Cheadle (from Cheadle: bearing 98°T, OS grid SK 072 422), and is situated west-north-west of Denstone village. High above the river, the gothic spires of Alton Castle rise with a sudden, dramatic gravity, their stone weathered to the colour of dried bracken. A short walk away, the curious, circular silhouette of the Round House marks a quiet corner of the landscape, standing as a solitary witness to the slow passage of seasons. The air here holds a sharp, clean clarity that seems to sharpen the edges of the distant horizon, particularly when viewed from the vantage point of Toot Hill. Beneath these elevations, the ground drops away into the verdant, moisture-rich hollows of the Saltersford Lane Meadows Sssi, where the flora thrives in the damp, undisturbed silence. Alton persists as a place of stark contrasts, balancing the heavy, romantic stone of its medieval heritage against the vast, open skies that define this elevated reach of the Midlands.
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About This Alton, Staffordshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Alton, Staffordshire, 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. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Alton includes coordinates 52.977299, -1.893253, in the county of Staffordshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Alton is available on the Alton map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Staffordshire 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.