South-West England Scenic flood locations - Somerset and Gloucestershire

daugirdas said:
Sweet - I need to plan that together with late evening shopping at Glastonbury street :) Hopefully the water stays there for a few more days :exit:
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i think your fairly safe in thinking that, plan away, from what ive heard, you may have a week or 4.

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Again this is only a guess, anyone that lives around their might be able to help, but on the map link (if it works) is meare road, its a fairly strait road, "if" its still passable their are a few raised bridges to the left.

https://goo.gl/maps/1I0ko

might make some good vantage, dry points to work from.

Again, i haven't been their for a few months, so cant say what state the area is in, wet, dry, impassable ?

but its maybe 1-2 minutes by car from clarks village.
 
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If you find yourself in central Somerset, the town of Langport has quite a lot of flooding around it at the moment.

There's also Burowbridge which has been on the news a fair bit recently. There's an old church on a hill (called Burrow Mump) overlooking a lot of flat flooded fields, and it looks great in photos. I'm at work at the moment so haven't got access to my photos, but I got a couple decent flood shots around there just after Christmas. If you want to go up the hill be careful as it's incredibly slippy when it's muddy (I got caked in mud once as I tubled down the hill and decided to protect my camera as I fell rather than stop myself falling lol), but the fields are reasonably safe to walk through as long as you're carfeul and stick to the edges where the water's not as deep!
 
There's an RSPB wetlands site at Ham Wall, near Glastonbury, which should be quite full.
There is a blog on their website which describes some of the local conditions on the 9th Feb:
http://www.rspb.org.uk/community/pl...nt-sightings-at-rspb-ham-wall-07-02-2014.aspx

I'm a bit of a fan of the "Time Team" TV archaeology series and they once did a dig at Muchelney, which is one of those places that's been isolated for about 6 weeks.
During the program it was mentioned that Muchelney used to be an island during Neolithic to Iron age times.
A case of history repeating?
 
Nice shots from Lechlade, I have driven through a few times in the past week and thought about getting some snaps.
 
daugirdas said:
Nice work :) Do you think Tewkesbury would also work with the cathedral?
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Cheers - I've not been, but I think it could work well, may have to head on down there.

connersz said:
Nice shots from Lechlade, I have driven through a few times in the past week and thought about getting some snaps.
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Thanks Jamie, well worth stopping in the first car park before the narrow bridge and having a wander. Wellies are essential though, and waders would be even better. A tripod leg makes a great depth measuring tool also.
 
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