John Hall wrote:
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ian writes:

I'm interested in discovering which bits of Shrewsbury were flooded
yesterday, and which bits are prone to flooding. (I am contemplating
moving to the area).


You could try asking in uk.local.shropshire

I asked about it on a building site there once and was told any
flooding taking place is due to the weir the council or river authority
built in recent decades.

I forget where exactly but the plethora of "Tudor" timber framed
building shows it is not an area that used to flood often -hence the
subject coming up. It floods each time an opportunity presents itself
these days, I heard.

I was more interested in the timber houses at the time but would have
liked to follow it up. Building sites, however rich in local lore and
mathematical exactitude they may be, do not lend themselves easily to
scholarly pursuits.

A crawl of pubs in the Frankwell area might elicit more. It is a lovely
place though.

I looked at the online OS maps for it following the Severn as far as it
was navigable. It leaves the first 40 miles from its source to cover
the next few hundreds as a slow "old" river.

I have seen some sights further up when the Severn was in full spate
that were startling.