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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 ...
Around 70% of deep peat in the Somerset Levels and Moors is likely to be losing carbon due to intensive livestock grazing, cultivation and direct extraction. Maize cultivation has increased, and most soils under maize were damaged to the extent that rainfall is unable to penetrate the upper soil layers, resulting in silt-laden runoff.
Bearley Brook; Black Ditch; Cannington Brook; Chinnock Water; Cobb's Cross Stream; Decoy Rhine; Eighteen Foot Rhine; Hamp Brook; Horsey Pill; King's Sedgemoor Drain
Peat extraction on the Somerset Levels continued in the 2000s, although at a much reduced scale. [ 1 ] [ 10 ] In 2012 the Fisons Eclipse Peat Works covered 3,000 acres (1,200 ha), but only 1,100 acres (450 ha) were actually worked — less than 0.5% of the entire area of the Somerset Levels.
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.
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.
Former peat workings, now part of the reserve. The Somerset Levels have been occupied since the Neolithic period, around 6,000 years ago, when people exploited the reed swamps for resources and started to construct wooden trackways such as the Sweet and Post Tracks, [7] and they were the site of salt extraction during the Romano-British period. [8]
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.