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From December 2013 onwards the Somerset Levels suffered severe flooding as part of the wider 2013–2014 Atlantic winter storms in Europe and subsequent 2013–2014 United Kingdom winter floods. The Somerset Levels, or the Somerset Levels and Moors as they are less commonly but more correctly known, is a coastal plain and wetland area of ...
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.
People have been left trapped in their homes, water has flowed into houses and cars have been abandoned as heavy flooding deluged swathes of north-west England.
Heavy overnight rainfall has led to the A358 being flooded between Ilminster and Chard.
9th May 2023, 24th March 2023, 4th January 2014, 9th February 2009, 13th December 2008, Previous floods: 2000, May 1979 - major flooding of church Flooding in 1979 The Department of Transport, responsible for building the new A303, accepted that the impact from the discharges of runoff from that road to the A303 was a major factor.
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The modern road bridge was rebuilt in 1968 after flood damage, but the much older (1839–85) bridge, by the church, survived the flood. On the western side of the village is Pensford Viaduct on the disused Bristol and North Somerset Railway , built in 1873 but closed to trains in 1968 after the great flood of Pensford, after which it was ...