Ham maintains a quiet composure within the chalk-rich folds of the Wiltshire landscape. It lies 3.4 miles south of Hungerford (from Hungerford: bearing 187°T, OS grid SU 331 630), and is situated east of Shalbourne village. The light here catches the limestone facades with a pale, brittle clarity, revealing the patient work of centuries in the flint-knapped walls. To the south, the slopes of Ham Hill rise as a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest, where the thin, nutrient-poor soil sustains a fragile, vivid biodiversity. The nearby waters of the Old Mill-race hold the sky in an unmoving mirror, reflecting the slow passage of clouds over the downs. Residents observe the rhythms of the seasons through the shifting colour of the surrounding arable fields, which transition from winter’s raw brown to the deep, pulsing green of high summer. Ham exists as a place of deliberate endurance, where the boundary between the cultivated garden and the wilder ridges remains porous and thin.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Ham, 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 Ham includes coordinates 51.365177, -1.525915, 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 Ham is available on the Ham 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.