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).

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Ian

On a tatty piece of sub-ether ian at said...
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).


Nothing that I can find yet, but its it'll appear anywhere, it'll appear
he

http://www.shrewsburychronicle.com/news/

But having spent a while in Shrewsbury, I think I can guess where, even if
I can't name the areas.
--
Rob C. Overfield
Hull

ian wrote:
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).


Can I suggest get a ordnance survey map and look for low lying areas by
the river.

Joe
Wolverhampton
175m asl

ian wrote:
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).


For the latter, you could look at the flood maps on the Environment
Agency web site. But I wouldn't treat them as 100% definitive.
--
Steve Loft
Sanday, Orkney. 5m ASL
http://sanday.org.uk/weather

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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
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John Hall
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but I am not obliged to find you an understanding."
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John Hall wrote:
In article ,
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.

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posted on 7 Dec 2006 by ian
I would like to add:

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).


The Frankwell area is one of the more susceptible, there's a webcam
at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/cont...l_webcam.shtml

However there are residential areas fairly close which are at higher
levels.

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Quoting from message
posted on 7 Dec 2006 by ian
I would like to add:

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).



Hi Ian,

The areas flooded this week have been the usual ones: ie Frankwell car
park (a sudden rise on Wednesday afternoon caught a lot of Christmas
shoppers unawares who parked there), Coleham/English Bridge areas
(they're putting the barriers up there as I type) and low-lying land by
the river further out- mostly fields but it's getting close to the
houses at the top of Monkmoor by the golf driving range.

These areas are always the most susceptible (Frankwell especially)-
elsewhere in the town centre the ground rises steeply away from the
river and most residential areas are fine.

You'll be totally safe living anywhere except:

Frankwell
Coleham
Coton Hill
parts of Castlefields (eg Sydney Avenue)
the town end of Abbey Foregate and around Gay Meadow

And further out Atcham and Montford Bridge.


Good luck!
Edmund, Shrewsbury