Lawshall stretches across the Suffolk clay, a landscape where the heavy earth holds the winter rains and the light hangs low and pale over the open fields. It lies 5.8 miles south of Bury St Edmunds (from Bury St Edmunds: bearing 181°T, OS grid TL 855 551), and is situated north-north-west of Shimpling Street village. Ancient hedgerows trace the boundaries of long-established enclosures, guarding the quietude of a place where the pace of life follows the slow turn of the seasons. To the south, the dense canopy of Frithy and Chadacre Woods SSSI offers a dark, tangled contrast to the cultivated patchwork of the surrounding arable plains. A visitor might pause at the Phonebox Book Swap Shop, a small, repurposed sentinel of iron that keeps its own silent record of the local literary appetite. History persists in the deep, water-filled ditches of the moated site near New House Farm, where the damp, dark soil has preserved the faint echoes of medieval labour. Lawshall remains a place of hidden corners, where the sky seems vast and the horizon is defined by the steady, unyielding presence of the woods and the furrowed, iron-grey earth.
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Live animated radar for Lawshall and surroundings — RainViewer.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Lawshall, 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 Lawshall includes coordinates 52.163024, 0.71135, 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 Lawshall is available on the Lawshall 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.