Heathfold. Trains, the river, the weather, live

Terms of use

One page per village, computed from public feeds. Nothing on it is typed in by a person and nothing on it is a record of anything.

What this is

Every figure on a village page is read from somebody else's live source and worked out here. Train departures, the river level, rainfall, flood and weather warnings, air quality, pollen and power cuts all come from the organisations credited at the foot of every page.

Heathfold, at heathfold.uk and formerly at parishes.uk, is run by Julian Mullins as a personal, non-commercial project. It carries no advertising and sells nothing.

This site is not a parish council, a local authority or an emergency service, and it speaks for none of them. For the official record of a village, its agendas, its notices and its decisions, go to that village's own council.

How accurate it is

Each figure is shown with the time it was read, and the feeds panel at the foot of every village page says which sources are current, which are stale and which have stopped answering. That panel is the honest answer to how much to trust the rest of the page at any moment.

Feeds fail. They go slow, they go down, and they are sometimes wrong at source. When a figure cannot be read the page says so rather than showing the last one as though it were current. A figure kept from an earlier read is labelled as kept.

Bin collection dates come from the council where the council publishes them. In Dorset they do, so the dates on a village page are the council's own next collection for a property in that village, and the page links to the council's calendar for that round so you can check it against the source.

Two things to know about that. The council answers about a property rather than about a village, so a village that straddles two collection rounds may be shown the wrong one, and the site refuses to show dates at all where it can see that has happened. Garden waste is not shown, because it is charged for and subscribed to per household and one address says nothing about the next.

Where a council publishes nothing, the dates fall back to arithmetic, counted forward from a single collection somebody watched happen. Those are not your council's dates and your council has not seen them, and a round that changes, a bank holiday or a mistake in the anchor will make them wrong. The page says plainly which of the two it is showing, every time. If it says the dates were counted forward, check with your council before putting a bin out on the strength of this site alone.

What not to rely on it for

Do not use this site to make a decision in an emergency. It is a convenience, it is read from feeds that fail, and it is nobody's official channel.

  • For flooding, ring Floodline on 0345 988 1188, or see the Environment Agency at check for flooding.
  • For a power cut, ring 105, free from any phone.
  • For train times you are about to travel on, check with the train operator or at the station.
  • In a life threatening emergency, ring 999.

No warranty

This site is provided as it is, with no promise that it is accurate, complete, current or available. Nothing here is advice. Anybody relying on it does so at their own risk, and no liability is accepted for any loss or inconvenience arising from its use, from an error in it, or from it being unavailable.

Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud, because the law does not allow that to be limited.

The sources and their licences

River level, rainfall and flood warning data comes from the Environment Agency. This uses Environment Agency flood and river level data from the real-time data API (Beta), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Weather, air quality and pollen come from Open Meteo, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Bin collection dates, the nearest recycling centre and the two people who represent a village come from that village's council, in Dorset through its own public service catalogue.

Outside Dorset, the councillors come from the council's own list of councillors, and the member of parliament from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. The nearest surgery and its telephone number come from the NHS Organisation Data Service, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Live train times for the next two hours come from National Rail Enquiries, with data from Rail Delivery Group, and so do engineering work and disruption notices. Trains further ahead, and live times whenever National Rail does not answer, come from Realtime Trains. Weather warnings come from the Met Office.

Power cut information comes from whichever network serves the village: SSEN; National Grid, supported by NGED Open Data under the NGED Open Data Licence; Northern Powergrid, supported by Northern Powergrid Open Data under the Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence; and UK Power Networks, whose data is licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Street maps are drawn from Ordnance Survey open data under the Open Government Licence, and from OpenStreetMap under the Open Database Licence. They contain OS data, Royal Mail data and National Statistics data, each under Crown or Royal Mail copyright and database right, as each map says. Where a village is and which council it belongs to come from postcodes.io, which is built on the same Ordnance Survey, Royal Mail and National Statistics data.

Each source remains the property of whoever published it and is subject to their own terms.

Every figure taken from the Environment Agency links to that gauge's own page, so that any number here can be checked against the number they published.

Links out

Where this site links to somebody else, it does not control what is there and is not responsible for it.

Getting something corrected

If a figure here is wrong, if a village's bin dates have drifted, or if a page says something about a place that is simply not true, write to hello@heathfold.uk. A correction needs only what you saw and where you saw it, and somebody who lives in a village is worth more than any amount of working it out from a distance.

Where a figure comes from somebody else's feed, the correction usually belongs with them rather than here. Every figure taken from the Environment Agency links to that gauge's own page, which is the quickest way to tell which of the two it is.

Changes

These terms may change. The version in force is the one on this page. Last changed on 17 September 2026.