Depden drifts across the rolling clay plains of Suffolk, defined by a stark, quiet openness that resists the clutter of more crowded counties. It lies 6.6 miles south-west of Bury St Edmunds (from Bury St Edmunds: bearing 231°T, OS grid TL 774 573), and is situated west-south-west of Chedburgh village. The horizon here is vast and stripped of artifice, allowing the low-slung winter sun to sharpen the edges of the hedgerows until they look like ink strokes on a pale page. At the southern edge of the parish, the moated site at Depden Hall holds the weight of centuries within its stagnant water, a silent witness to the generations that worked this stubborn, heavy earth. Beyond the immediate fields, the modest rise of Fuller’s Hill offers a vantage point where the wind carries the scent of damp soil and distant, turned furrows. Depden maintains a reserved character, its identity rooted in the slow, mechanical pulse of modern agriculture rather than the whims of passing tourism. Occasionally, the metallic glint of the Depden Village Sign catches the light, serving as a singular, man-made anchor in a landscape dominated by the changing sky. This is a place that asks for little, preferring the company of its own shadows and the steady, unadorned endurance of the Suffolk plateau.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Depden, 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 Depden includes coordinates 52.186091, 0.593806, 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 Depden is available on the Depden 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.