Manton holds its own against the weight of the chalk downs, a collection of flint and brick houses hunkered down by the River Kennet. It lies 1.3 miles west-south-west of Marlborough (from Marlborough: bearing 248°T, OS grid SU 169 683). The water here runs clear and cold, carving a narrow vein through the valley floor where the light often catches the silver underside of willow leaves. Beyond the gardens, the land climbs steadily toward the ancient silhouette of the Bowl Barrow 50M North Of Barrow Farm, a quiet earthwork keeping watch over the modern tarmac. To the east, the steep slopes of Granham Hill draw the eye upward, providing a stark, grassy counterpoint to the orderly architecture of the nearby school grounds. Horses from the local racing stables frequently tread the lanes, their rhythmic passage marking the hours more reliably than the church clock. Manton remains defined by this proximity to the high, open ridges where the wind carries the scent of dry grass and crushed stone. Evening shadows stretch long across the fields, pulling the horizon closer until the sky and the rolling contours of the land seem to touch.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Manton, 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 Manton includes coordinates 51.41435, -1.757359, 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 Manton is available on the Manton 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.