Burgh rests upon the quiet, heavy clay of the Suffolk plateau, where the sky claims a vast and unrelenting portion of the horizon. It lies 3.0 miles west-north-west of Woodbridge (from Woodbridge: bearing 302°T, OS grid TM 231 514), and is situated east-north-east of Grundisburgh village. The light here has a way of bleaching the colour from the fields, leaving the earth a pale, brittle ochre that seems to absorb the sound of passing machinery. Visitors are greeted by the Burgh Village Sign, a piece of public ironwork that catches the low, thin sun and throws long, distorted shadows across the verge. A short distance away, the settlement site around St Botolph’s Church marks a deeper, more stubborn history, where the foundations of old walls wait beneath the grass like dormant teeth. The land here does not offer dramatic vistas, but instead provides a flat, honest expanse that demands patience from those who work it. Even in the height of summer, the air retains a slight, damp chill, reminding one that the North Sea is never truly far from the local consciousness. Burgh remains a place of sparse lines and silences, where the rhythm of the seasons dictates the pace of existence more effectively than any clock.
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Live animated radar for Burgh and surroundings — RainViewer.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Burgh, Suffolk, 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 Burgh includes coordinates 52.116307, 1.25836, in the county of Suffolk, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Burgh is available on the Burgh map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Suffolk 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.