Tewkesbury Abbey website

Here's the link to Tewkesbury Abbey website
http://www.tewkesburyabbey.org.uk/Temporary%20pages/Flooding.html

Like many folks on these lists, I visited Minster
Lovell, arriving at 8:00 a.m. on a clear July day and
marvelling at the "secret garden" quality of the site.
It seemed to me almost to float above the Windrush,
and I thought immediately of what might happen to it
as well as the lovely St. Kenelm's Church in these
devastating floods.

I still haven't seen any photos of the Minster itself,
the photos on this Witney area bulletin board do
show the town, and they'll give a sense of what it
must be like. We crossed the Windrush on a little
footbridge near the Minster and traveled the footpath
about 3/4 mile towards Witney when we were there -- in
these photos it's really a raging torrent.

Scroll down this page.

http://www.witneyforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=1101&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=45

The Minster Lovell area ALWAYS floods - that is why the large meadow to
the west of the Lovell mansion is called "Wash Meadow". The South-West
Tower is often lapped by water, but the main part of the monument is on
higher ground and should be quite safe. The floods around Witney Bridge
were probably caused because developers have built over most of the
Medieval drainage ditches which had, hitherto, allowed excess water to
escape from the town centre.

Dear Stanley and all,

I'll be pleased to learn that you're correct about
Minster Lovell. I did hear that the church took some
water but not much.


--- "Stanley C.Jenkins" <stanleyc.jenkins@...>
wrote:

> The Minster Lovell area ALWAYS floods - that is why
> the large meadow to
> the west of the Lovell mansion is called "Wash
> Meadow". The South-West
> Tower is often lapped by water, but the main part of
> the monument is on
> higher ground and should be quite safe. The floods
> around Witney Bridge
> were probably caused because developers have built
> over most of the
> Medieval drainage ditches which had, hitherto,
> allowed excess water to
> escape from the town centre.
>
>