The Otter Valley starts up in the Blackdown Hills and runs roughly SSW to the sea at Budleigh Salterton. This weather station is situated alongside the River Otter between the villages of Newton Poppleford and Otterton in the south-east of Devon, which is in the south west of England. The nearest coastline is 3.5 km away at Jacob's Ladder Beach, Sidmouth. The area is designated an Area of Outstanding Beauty (AONB)  and dominated by rolling, lush green hills and soft, broad-leaved wooded valleys and the dramatic, inspiring coastline of the Jurassic Coast, which is a natural World Heritage Site. The climate is maritime temperate hence, mild, humid and dominated by the Atlantic Ocean to the west.