Great Wenham, Suffolk Weather
About Great Wenham, Suffolk
Great Wenham emerges from the Suffolk clay as a collection of quiet lanes and flint-faced dwellings that hold the morning light in a pale, silver embrace. It lies 3.7 miles south-east of Hadleigh (from Hadleigh: bearing 136°T, OS grid TM 070 382), and is situated north-east of Holton St Mary village. St John’s Church marks the horizon with its sturdy, rounded tower, a sentinel of local geology fashioned from the very stone pulled from the surrounding fields. A short distance to the east, the fortified walls of Little Wenham Castle rise above the hedgerows, standing as a stark, thirteenth-century reminder of a time when domestic comfort required the protection of crenellated stone. The air here carries the scent of damp earth and turning furrows, a testament to the persistent agricultural rhythm that has long defined the life of Great Wenham. Beyond the immediate periphery, the dense, shadowed canopy of Raydon Great Wood offers a contrast to the open arable expanses, providing a wilder edge to the manicured order of the farmland. These pathways and quiet corners remain undisturbed by the haste of modern transit, maintaining an atmosphere of calm that seems to deepen as the sun drifts low over the horizon. Every boundary and hedgerow acts as a silent archivist, preserving the character of a landscape that values patience over progress.
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Live animated radar for Great Wenham and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Great Wenham, Suffolk Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Great Wenham, 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 Great Wenham includes coordinates 52.004329, 1.015083, 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 Great Wenham is available on the Great Wenham 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.