Flooding

A downside of having the waterway going through the village is the constant risk of flooding. Many residents were affected in 2007 and through history floods have occurred regularly. The Parish Magazine relates that November 1894 will long be remembered as ‘the flood month’ and talks about a large river running through the streets and water ‘entering under doorways without knocking’. Mr and Mrs Gerring remembered a flood that was ‘as high as the bed of a farm wagon’ and another when ‘Mrs Thatcher had to be rescued from her cottage in Pugsden Lane’.

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Pictures from 2007.