Turvey High Water Marks - Turvey, Bedfordshire, UK
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Dragontree
N 52° 09.709 W 000° 37.723
30U E 662190 N 5781687
Located on the wall of Ye Three Fyshes public house, this high water mark is an official inscription from the year 1797.
Waymark Code: WM55N2
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 11/15/2008
Views: 9
Ye Three Fyshes inn at Turvey, Bedfordshire is an ancient hostelry with projecting gables, and bears the date 1624. A great flood, on September 26th, 1797, rose about four feet above the roadway, near the "Three Fishes."
The inscription can be clearly read on the first plaque. Underneath this plaque is a more modern plaque detailing other flood marks including a 47.8 foot high mark in March 1947. It is detailed on a Newlyn Datum plaque, the official Ordnance Survey gauge. This is based on the mean sea level at New Lyn, Cornwall and is abbreviated to ODN. It gives a basis to all water levels in the UK.
The River Great Ouse passes by about 50 metres to the west and this marks the boundary between Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
Natural or man made event?: Natural
What type of marker?: Wall Plaque
When did this occur?: 1797 and 1947
Website related to the event..: [Web Link]
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Visit Instructions:
A picture showing the level along with any markers telling of what had occurred can be used. Better yet would be a picture of you or someone standing next to the high level mark, that would show if you would have been just wading or completely submersed.