Brandon Castle

The Avon continued to rise through the night and we woke to our first flood alert for several years. Actually it isn't as high as it was the last time but bad enough for the road out of the village to be closed. Also it does look like more rain could be on the way

This is taken from the raised causeway that runs beside the road. The river here would normally be about six feet lower and all this would be dry land, and as you can tell it is running pretty fast. It was windy as well, which didn't make the causeway a great place to be.

The ground still above water in the photo is the site of Brandon Castle, and you can just make out where the moat once was.