Maddington, Wiltshire Weather
About Maddington, Wiltshire
Maddington holds a quiet gravity upon the chalky expanse of the Salisbury Plain, where the sky presses close to the earth with a pale, unrelenting intensity. It lies 5.6 miles west-north-west of Amesbury (from Amesbury: bearing 288°T, OS grid SU 068 442), and is situated north of Shrewton village. The land here carries the scars of deep time, its contours shaped by the slow, relentless pressure of water and ice long before the first dwellings took root. To the east, the ancient silhouette of the Three Bowl Barrows 300M Ese Of Middle Farm stands as a silent sentinel, marking the horizon with humps of turf that have outlasted empires. A short distance to the south, the River Till SSSIs carve a wandering, silver thread through the limestone, providing a sanctuary where the air grows damp and heavy with the scent of crushed mint and river silt. Maddington remains tethered to this rhythmic cycle of the seasons, where the wind scours the open fields and the light catches the flint-knapped walls of older buildings with a sharp, metallic clarity. The architecture here does not boast, but instead hunkers down against the persistent gusts that sweep across the plateau. Such a landscape demands a certain stoicism from its inhabitants, for the soil is thin and the horizon offers no shelter from the gathering clouds. Everything here feels sharpened by the weather, from the hard edges of the stone to the quick, darting movements of birds over the fallow ground.
Flight conditions near Maddington. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Maddington and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Maddington, Wiltshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Maddington, 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 Maddington includes coordinates 51.19741, -1.903519, 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 Maddington is available on the Maddington 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.