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Rob Bale writes:
Martin, managed to find this via google
The Great Ammil - 1947 (Grose, G)

http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/dnp/p...limpses-9.html

That's fascinating. Though it may have affected a smaller area, it
sounds as though in severity it was comparable to the great ice-storm of
January, 1940.
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