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I will be at about 350 Metres (about 1,150 feet), but I do have to pass through Broughton Mills, a tiny hamlet with a very tight bridge, a square bend off this tiny narrow hump back bridge, then it goes down to beck level. If I am going to have a problem it will be there, although there is a splash well up in the hills where the road becomes a river for 50 yards. Onto the road through one field gate and back off the road through another field gate. I have seen it a foot deep through there.
It will all be gone by tomorrow night. Seathwaite has the highest rainfall in an inhabited area in UK over 24 Hrs and is about a mile from where I go for my night sky photography.
Seathwaite Farm, Cumbria, November 19 2009 – 314mm*
Martinstown, Dorset, July 18 1955 – 279.4mm
Bruton (Sexey's School), Somerset, June 28 1917 – 242.8mm
Upwey (Friar Waddon), Dorset, July 18 1955 – 241.3mm
Cannington, Somerset, August 16 1924 – 238.8mm
Loch Sloy Main Adit, Strathclyde, January 17 1974 – 238.4mm
Long Barrow, Devon, August 15 1952 – 228.6mm
Upwey (Higher Well), Dorset, July 18 1955 – 228.6mm
Bruton (King's School), Somerset, June 28 1917 – 215.4mm
Timberscombe, Somerset, June 28 1917 – 213.1mm
Rhondda (Lluest Wen Reservoir), Glamorgan, November 11 1929 – 211.1mm
Upwey (Elwell), Dorset, July 18 1955 – 211.1mm
Kinlochquoich, Highland, October 11 1916 – 208.3mm
Camelford, Cornwall, July 8 1957 – 203.2mm
Bruton (Pitcombe Vicarage), Somerset, June 28 1917 -200.7mm
Wynford House, Dorset, July 18 1955 – 200.7mm
Otterham, near Boscastle, August 16 2004 – 200.4mm
* Figure recorded by the Environment Agency
There are many recorded high amounts of rainfall in the West Country.
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Robert.