March 9, 1774

Posted by sydney on Mar 9th, 1774

This was the last day of the wet weather: but the waters were so encreased by this day’s deluge, that most astonishing floods ensued.  This rain & snow, coming on the back of such continual deluges, occasioned a flood in the S. of England beyond anything ever remembered before.  In the night between the 8th and 9th a vast fragment of an hanger in the parish of Hawkely slipped down; & at the same time several fields below were rifted & torn in a wonderful manner: two houses also & a barn were shattered, a road stopped-up, & some trees thrown-down.  50 acres of ground were disordered & damaged by this strange accident.  The turf of some pastures was driven into a sort of waves: in some places the ground sunk into hollows.

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