The site currently October includes in excess of photographs, separate bridge records and a growing list of watermills and mill streams. My real interest is in the structures, that is the bridges, the aqueducts, and the water mills that currently stand or once stood along the waterways. There are various ways to navigate through the site.
The top menu covers the various sections of the site and there is a sitemap which provides a comprehensive listing of individual pages. If you are looking for a specific river or canal you can also use the locations map which provides links to every river or canal listed. Each individual river or canal page provides specific links to a gallery, structures listing and a map for that river or canal.
Skip to content. Welcome to the Somerset Rivers Website This site lists close to rivers in Somerset including the waters of Exmoor and is my attempt to record a history and pictorial account of these watercourses. River Barle — Cornham Brake My real interest is in the structures, that is the bridges, the aqueducts, and the water mills that currently stand or once stood along the waterways.
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Necessary Necessary. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Thousands of years ago the area was covered by the sea, but today it's a landscape of rivers and wetlands - artificially drained, irrigated and modified to allow productive farming.
In Roman times artificial flood defences were built to keep out the tides from the nearby Severn Estuary, and ditches were dug. This created a network of inland channels to drain large areas of floodplain marsh. During the Middle Ages the monasteries at Glastonbury, Athelney and Muchelney drained and looked after the land. Dutch engineers arrived to drain the Levels in the 17th Century. Farmers have managed the landscape ever since. It's one of lowest and flattest areas in the country with much of it below high water level on spring tides, and a maximum altitude of only 25ft 8m above sea level.
The wetland is supplied by the rivers Axe, Sheppey and Brue in the north, while to the south, the rivers are the Cary, Yeo, Tone and Parrett. It is these rivers which are at the centre of claims by farmers who say a lack of dredging has caused flooding. Well, it's not unusual for the area to flood. The latest widespread flooding of the Levels is just one in a long record of flood events.
Records show more than a third of the area 70, acres or 28, ha was submerged in Yes, according to some scientists.
About years ago. A tsunami, described as "huge and mighty hills of water" advancing at a speed "faster than a greyhound can run" is thought to have swept down the Bristol Channel in , with the water reaching 14 miles inland and square miles sq km of land eventually submerged. Somerset County Council says about properties, in the villages of North Moor, Salt Moor, Fordgate and Moorland, are affected by the current crisis.
The Environment Agency says up to 40 homes have actually flooded. It's too early to say. Some have resorted to moving their animals from flood-hit fields and buildings to safer ground. The National Farmers Union says the area is mainly used for livestock and is not a particular hotbed for growing crops.
When the waters eventually recede we should get a better idea of how the land has been affected. Flood-hit areas braced for more rain. Environment boss 'let everyone down'.
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