Alton, Wiltshire Weather
About Alton, Wiltshire
Alton breathes with the quiet patience of the Wiltshire chalk, a place where the horizon stretches wide and pale under an expansive, unshielded sky. It lies 3.2 miles north of Amesbury (from Amesbury: bearing 359°T, OS grid SU 153 466), and is situated south of Figheldean village. Ancient earthworks mark the surrounding terrain, most notably the Knighton Farm Settlement and Moat, which offers a silent, grassy reminder of those who first cleared the scrub to dwell upon these slopes. To the east, the rounded profile of Barrow Clump rises against the clouds, a burial mound that anchors the landscape in a deep, pre-literate history. Alton remains defined by its proximity to the River Avon, which draws a thin, reflective line of silver through the deeper greens of the valley floor. The light here has a peculiar quality, sharp and clarifying, often catching the flint-knapped walls of local buildings to make them shimmer like scattered coins. A short distance to the north, the earth swells once more into the humped ridge of Gallows Barrow, standing as a sentinel over the quiet lanes that connect these scattered dwellings. Time in Alton does not march so much as it drifts, carried by the persistent breeze that ripples across the open fields and combs through the high, dry grasses.
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Live animated radar for Alton and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Alton, Wiltshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Alton, Wiltshire, 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 Alton includes coordinates 51.218925, -1.781582, in the county of Wiltshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Alton is available on the Alton map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Wiltshire 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.