Ancient heavy clays and the encroaching reach of the Weald define the low-lying terrain of Alfold. It lies 7.5 miles south-south-east of Godalming (from Godalming: bearing 146°T, OS grid TQ 038 339), and is situated north-north-east of Alfold Bars village. The parish church of St Nicholas preserves fragments of thirteenth-century masonry, standing as a weathered anchor against the slow shifting of the seasons. To the west, the canopy of Sidney Wood offers a dense, silent corridor of timber that has watched the parish boundaries remain largely unchanged for centuries. The Wey and Arun Canal snakes through the northern periphery, its stagnant, reed-fringed waters reflecting a sky that often feels vast and grey above the flat horizon. Here, the damp earth holds a quiet, stubborn memory of the glass-making furnaces that once burned in the surrounding woodland. Alfold maintains a reserved composure, indifferent to the hurried transit of modern traffic on the nearby A281. The quality of light across these fields possesses a thin, metallic clarity, particularly when winter frost clings to the furrowed soil of the farmland.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Alfold, Surrey, 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 Alfold includes coordinates 51.09574, -0.518803, in the county of Surrey, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Alfold is available on the Alfold map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Surrey 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.