Shot taken 21:53 Sunday November 24th. Following a few weeks of intermittent rain and then a covering of snow, on top of already heavily soaked land, it took only 40mm of rain recorded at the Shipston rain gauge (47mm in Cherington) to send the Stour through Shipston to a peak
2024
Spring 2024 Update
The SAFAG team have been very busy, in both 2023 and 2024 carrying out a multitude of intervention assessments, then followed by the required repairs/maintenance to the natural flood management leaky woody dams some of which have been damaged following the extremely heavy and regular storms over the winter periods.
In Memoriam. Phil Wragg 1947 – 2024
When the River Stour rose to its highest ever recorded level on 20th July 2007 it flooded more than 80 homes and businesses in Shipston, including the house that Phil Wragg and his wife Liz had moved in to only two months earlier. From that day onwards, Phil campaigned tirelessly