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1993 when Faringdon was flooded

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The trees had been cleared from a field just below Folly Hill not long before 'the storm', and it was newly ploughed. With nothing to secure the earth, it was washed down into the town​
For those of you who didn't live here then, imagine one of those thunderstoms that bring torrential rain for a few minutes, and then move on. Now imagine one of those storms not moving on for about four hours. Geographers from Oxford University came to look at Folly Hill and said it was the worst case of land erosion they'd ever seen in this country
Berners way was a fast torrant of mud!
I remember seeing someone canoeing in Park Road. Water at the bottom of Marlborough close was about 18 inches - 2 ft deep there. All the drains were blocked and back filling. It was horrendous
I remember my mum's back garden filling up and water flushing through the doors...then a tree from up the road came whizzing past the house...scary but funny
I 
remember the flash flood. Coxwell road was like a river with the amount of water flowing past heading for the town centre. 

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