The Rectangle, Wiltshire Weather
About The Rectangle, Wiltshire
The Rectangle marks a quiet geometry upon the Wiltshire landscape, where the flat fields seem to hold the sky with a deliberate, heavy stillness. It lies 2.7 miles south-east of Cricklade (from Cricklade: bearing 145°T, OS grid SU 125 900), and is situated west-north-west of Blunsdon St Andrew village. Drainage ditches and modest hedgerows define the perimeter of The Rectangle, serving as a boundary between the working soil and the encroaching suburban pulse. To the south-west, the waters of Tadpole Brook trace a slow, serpentine path through the reeds, casting long, liquid shadows as the evening sun dips low. This proximity to the water gives the air a damp, metallic clarity that clings to the skin during the transition from autumn to winter. Further east, the weathered remnants of Blunsdon Abbey stand as a skeletal reminder of older, more rigid devotions that once ordered the lives of those who laboured here. The Rectangle maintains a detached character, existing less as a bustling hub and more as an open expanse where the modern world thins out into open grass and quiet, unremarked history.
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Live animated radar for The Rectangle and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This The Rectangle, Wiltshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for The Rectangle, 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 The Rectangle includes coordinates 51.609363, -1.820872, 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 The Rectangle is available on the The Rectangle 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.