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The 2012 Great Britain and Ireland floods had brought severe flooding to the Somerset Levels. During December 2013 and January 2014 heavy rainfall led to extensive flooding on the Somerset Levels with over 600 houses and 17,000 acres (6,900 ha) of agricultural land, including North Moor, Curry and Hay Moors and Greylake, affected.
"The Somerset Levels in the Roman Period" (PDF). Archaeology Data Service (ADS). Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 December 2009; Dunning, Robert (1980). Somerset & Avon. Bartholomew. ISBN 0-7028-8380-8. Dunning, Robert (2004). "Westonzoyland". A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 8: The Poldens and the Levels. British History Online.
Source: Ordnance Survey OpenData The Somerset Levels are a coastal plain and wetland area of Somerset, England, running south from the Mendips to the Blackdown Hills.. The Somerset Levels have an area of about 160,000 acres (650 km 2) and are bisected by the Polden Hills; the areas to the south are drained by the River Parrett, and the areas to the north by the rivers Axe and Brue.
UK Floods-Case studies of causes and effects and flooding policies, Boscastle Flood- 16 August 2004 (subscription required) 50°41′26″N 4°41′42″W / 50.69044°N 4.69505°W / 50.69044; -4
North Somerset Levels taken from Dolebury Warren. The North Somerset Levels is a coastal plain, an expanse of low-lying flat ground, which occupies an area between Weston-super-Mare and Bristol in North Somerset, England. The River Banwell, River Kenn, River Yeo and Land Yeo are the three principal rivers draining the area.
The Somerset Levels and surrounding hills. Somerset is a rural county in southwest England with an area of 4,171 square kilometres (1,610 sq mi). It is bounded on the north-west by the Bristol Channel, on the north by Bristol and Gloucestershire, on the east by Wiltshire, on the south-east by Dorset, and on the south west and west by Devon.
West Sedgemoor or West Sedge Moor (grid reference) is an area of the Somerset Levels, in Somerset, England, around 8 miles (13 km) east of Taunton, which approximately coincides with the West Sedgemoor biological Site of Special Scientific Interest, a 1,016 hectare (3.9 sq miles) site notified as an SSSI in 1983.
This category groups together articles relating to the Somerset Levels, England. Pages in category "Somerset Levels" The following 100 pages are in this category, out of 100 total.