Longton, Staffordshire Weather
About Longton, Staffordshire
Longton retains the soot-stained character of a landscape forged by kilns and the relentless ambition of the industrial age. It lies 2.8 miles south-south-east of Stoke-on-Trent (from Stoke-on-Trent: bearing 150°T, OS grid SJ 906 433), and is situated west of Cookshill village. The skyline of Longton is still defined by the ghosts of bottle ovens, their brick silhouettes rising like silent sentinels against the grey Staffordshire sky. A short distance away, the Gladstone Pottery Museum preserves the intense, flickering memory of a time when the fire in the kilns never truly went out. To the west, the slopes of Swingle Hill offer a vantage point over the urban sprawl, where the light catches the slate roofs in a pale, melancholic gleam. Residents often find respite in the verdant expanse of Queen's Park, Longton, where eighteen hectares of managed greenery provide a necessary stillness against the hum of modern traffic. The earth here holds the weight of deep coal seams and the rhythmic clatter of a potter’s wheel, grounding the present in a heavy, clay-rich past. Longton remains a place where the grandeur of Victorian enterprise meets the quiet endurance of those who walk its pavements today.
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About This Longton, Staffordshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Longton, 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 Longton includes coordinates 52.987709, -2.140281, 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 Longton is available on the Longton 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.