Upperton draws its character from the quiet, chalk-streaked folds of the South Downs National Park, where the horizon seems to hold its breath against the encroaching woodland. It lies 1.5 miles west-north-west of Petworth (from Petworth: bearing 301°T, OS grid SU 957 227), and is situated north-north-west of Tillington village. The landscape here is defined by a slow, rhythmic transition between the dense timber of Pheasant Copse and the manicured, expansive reaches of the nearby Petworth Park. Sunlight catches the limestone walls of the local cottages, lending the stone a pale, dusty warmth that contrasts sharply with the deep greens of the surrounding pasture. To the west, the historic grounds of Pitshill and the Manor of Dean mark the boundary of the horizon, where the trees stand as silent sentinels over the rolling topography. Upperton remains a place where the passage of time is measured not by clocks, but by the lengthening shadows that creep across the fields during the long, amber-hued afternoons. Here, the air carries a crispness derived from the high, open ridges, grounding the hamlet in the ancient, unadorned earth of the English countryside.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Upperton, 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 Upperton includes coordinates 50.996291, -0.637202, 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 Upperton is available on the Upperton 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.