Rockley, Wiltshire Weather
About Rockley, Wiltshire
Rockley remains a quiet collection of dwellings where the chalky earth meets the expansive sky of the Marlborough Downs. It lies 2.1 miles north-west of Marlborough (from Marlborough: bearing 318°T, OS grid SU 165 717), and is situated west of Ogbourne Maizey village. The landscape here holds the silence of high ground, marked by the ancient, grassy humps of a bowl barrow that rests half a mile north of the manor. This burial site, part of the Rockley Plantation Barrow Cemetery, serves as a stark reminder of those who walked these ridges long before modern fences divided the grazing land. To the west, the dry chalk valley of Temple Bottom carves a pale, winding path through the turf, catching the low, slanted light of an autumn afternoon. Rockley persists as a place where the horizon feels exceptionally wide, dominated by the stark simplicity of the rolling terrain. The surrounding downland, including the distant enclosure on Ogbourne Down, offers little shelter from the wind that perpetually scours the open slopes. In the stillness of the afternoon, the flint-strewn paths of Rockley seem to hold the memory of horses and carts that once laboured toward the higher ground.
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About This Rockley, Wiltshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Rockley, 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 Rockley includes coordinates 51.444375, -1.762682, 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 Rockley is available on the Rockley 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.