River Anker flooding in Sandon fields and showing the blocked entrance to Weddington Church.

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TODAY’S SUBJECT is evidence of the River Anker flooding in Sandon fields and showing the blocked entrance to Weddington Church.

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It’s Friday the 9th of February 2024 and it’s been Raining at Sand and Fields and well plenty to see just uh flood water everywhere which is the whole point of the uh arrangement of the fields here and let’s hope it’s doing its job and uh no houses are being affected cu the last thing you want is this muddy water going

Into your house how terrible that would be so this is the river anchor as it leaves Nan area and heads off towards Tamworth and uh there is some beauty in it know as Well Here you can’t really see where the river is anymore the whole of the flood plane is completely covered and then turning to the west and the river and its flood plane makes its way over towards cerut and on towards withybrook but turning back towards St James’s Church Church in Weddington here you can

See the entrance to the church is completely flooded and there’s some concern about this because there’s no access to the church here you can see the car park and the Gateway completely cut off however looking a bit closer in the corner of the car park this is clearly

Water coming up from what I presume as a drain and that surely is just feeding this great pool of Water by the entrance to the Church heading on over the football pitches of Sanden Park you can see Cleaver Gardens and the flood waters here are well over the edge of the river and approaching the buildings I do hope the people on the ground floor are not troubled too much with Them Well thanks for watching and I think this might be useful just to record where the flood waterers got to okay you’ll see me next time Bye-bye