A little over a year ago the Somerset Levels were devastated by flooding. Local villages, farms, businesses and wildlife were severely affected for several months by some of the worst flooding in living memory. Many people were convinced that it wasn't just abominable weather to blame - the rivers just hadn't been dredged for years. Since then the environment agency have been working hard to remove some 130,000 cubic metres of silt from the Tone and Parrett. The dredging is now finished and they are completing piling work here at Burrowbridge. Let's hope that when the rain starts this work will prove an effective prevention of further flooding!
Our thoughts were with you at the time, we also had flash flooding and were without power for many days. I hope all goes well with you this year! so important to keep a photographic record of these events!
It's Burrow Mump which is a natural conical hill in the middle of the Somerset Levels. The ruin is what remains of an 18th Century church dedicated to St Michael, which was a rebuild of several other buildings dating back to a 15th century church belonging to Athelney Abbey. It was abandoned in favour of a church built at the foot of the hill in 1938. It belongs to the National Trust now.
November 9th, 2014
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