The New Murrey and Blue blog

floods

Was it a spring tide in 1607? Was it a storm? No, it was a tsunami! Or was it….?

Jan 20, 2021

anniversaries, buildings, Science

books, Bristol Channel, calendars, Cardigan, Devon, floods, Glamorgan, Gloucestershire, Gwent, Lord Herbert, parish registers, River Severn, Rose Hewlett, Somerset, tsunamis

“….But the yeere 1606, the fourth of King James, the ryver of Severn rose upon a sodeyn Tuesday mornyng the 20 of January beyng the full pryme day and hyghest tyde after the change of the moone by reason of a myghty strong western wynde….” John Paul, Vicar of Almondsbury In ‘A True Report of…
Tadcaster Bridge

Jan 24, 2017

buildings, Events

Archbishop of York, floods, Lancastrians, River Wharfe, Tadcaster Bridge, Towton, Yorkshire

This, over the Wharfe whereby part of the defeated Lancastrian army at Towton fled, has been closed since the 2012 and 2015 floods but will be re-opened on 19th February and the Archbishop of York will preside at a ceremony the following Sunday.