Madehurst commands a quiet authority over the chalky ridges that define this corner of the South Downs National Park. It lies 2.9 miles north-west of Arundel (from Arundel: bearing 316°T, OS grid SU 985 103), and is situated north-east of Slindon village. The light here has a peculiar, translucent quality, catching the flint walls of local buildings as if to remind the observer of the ancient bedrock beneath. To the north-east, the dense canopy of Houghton Forest offers a sharp contrast to the open fields, where the air holds the scent of damp earth and cooling stone. Madehurst shares its horizon with the nearby Bomb Hole, a natural depression that breaks the uniformity of the rolling terrain with a sudden, shadowed depth. Paths wind away from the centre toward the slopes of Rewell Hill, where the ground rises to meet an expansive, muted sky. Life in Madehurst proceeds with a deliberate, singular focus, untroubled by the frantic pulse of the world beyond its limestone boundaries.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Madehurst, West Sussex, 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. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Madehurst includes coordinates 50.884466, -0.600803, in the county of West Sussex, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Madehurst is available on the Madehurst map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the West Sussex 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.