Moorend, Staffordshire Weather
About Moorend, Staffordshire
Moorend commands a rugged elevation where the wind scours the stone walls of the Staffordshire Moorlands, leaving the grass clipped short by the elements. It lies 4.9 miles north-east of Cheadle (from Cheadle: bearing 44°T, OS grid SK 065 486), and is situated north-west of Hoften's Cross village. The light here has a sharp, thin quality, falling across the limestone outcrops and the broken ground of the nearby Caldon Low SSSI with a cold, pale clarity. Moorend exists as a cluster of grey-faced dwellings that seem to have grown directly from the gritstone beneath them. To the south, the valley of Cotton Dell cuts a deep, verdant scar into the earth, contrasting with the exposed, wind-battered heights of the hamlet. Time feels held in the heavy, circular earthworks of the Ribden Low Bowl Barrow, which stands as a silent sentinel over the agricultural toil of the surrounding fields. The local landscape remains defined by the persistence of its geology, where the earth hides industrial memories beneath a thin veneer of pasture. Every lane in Moorend traces the contours of a difficult, beautiful terrain that demands much from those who walk its paths.
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About This Moorend, Staffordshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Moorend, 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 Moorend includes coordinates 53.035512, -1.90343, 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 Moorend is available on the Moorend 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.