Long Dean, Wiltshire Weather
About Long Dean, Wiltshire
Long Dean emerges from the folds of the Wiltshire landscape as a quiet collection of stone dwellings that seem to draw their very substance from the earth beneath. It lies 3.5 miles north-north-west of Corsham (from Corsham: bearing 337°T, OS grid ST 850 756), and is situated north-east of Ford village. High limestone walls catch the low, slanted light of afternoon, casting long shadows across the narrow lanes that wind through the valley floor. To the north-east, the slopes of West Yatton Down Sssi rise with a wild, untamed grace, their chalky soils supporting a fragile mosaic of flora that has persisted through the turn of many centuries. Not far to the west, the elevated ground of Rack Hill commands a view over the limestone pastures where the air remains thin and crisp even in the height of summer. The architecture of Long Dean reflects a tradition of honest masonry, where the golden-hued oolite stone appears to soften under the persistent influence of the Atlantic winds. A profound silence often hangs over these limestone ridges, broken only by the sharp call of a kestrel or the sudden, rhythmic shifting of the breeze against the hawthorn hedges. Every stone in Long Dean carries the weight of a slow, geological patience that renders the frantic pulse of the modern world a distant and irrelevant thing.
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About This Long Dean, Wiltshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Long Dean, 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 Long Dean includes coordinates 51.48003, -2.21618, 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 Long Dean is available on the Long Dean 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.