Inchcape Derby Under Water

[simpleR]

I thought churches were built on high land so they stood out.

But anyway, that Derby piece of land has always flooded however the level reached in October was the highest ever recorded.

[Moss]

Nice thought but not really true, that old churches don’t flood. Whilst many churches are on hills, many are not and a quick google shows many recently flooded including my wife’s former 14th century village church, flooded from the Derwent.
I do fully agree that building on flood planes over the last 50 years is not proving sensible and all the up stream flood barriers and defences just send the water faster to the next town..

In the case of Inchcape they knowingly built on land fully expected to flood and on a regular basis. That was crazy..

Yes, you’re right. I think Tewksbury seems to disprove that.
But, we still don’t seem to be able to reconcile that saturated land and an elevated water table means trouble after rains. Flood plains just happened to be nature’s way of addressing cyclical water volumes running from the hinterland to the sea.