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Tidal level at Woodbridge

Tide gauge (sometimes a bit on the drag) Highest level was 3.35 (2013?) Ray Whyard tells  in 1953 the flooding reached up Cliff Road to the bend by the entrance to the Maybush car park. This is about 4.0m AOD (hard to be exact without measuring - lost OS BM on wall) which makes a height of tide of about…
alyson
February 11, 2020
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1926 Ordnance Survey

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alyson
January 31, 2020
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Charts of our River

Merged with Maps of our locality For the benefit of future local historians and to feed those afflicted with curiosity, the relevant maps and charts we have found and used are listed here. For our book, we have regarded maps as dealing with the land and charts with the water.  They are reproduced here only as small images to give…
alyson
December 29, 2019
MapsNotes

1611 Speed map of Suffolk

County scale, shows Waldringfielde, Brightwell river and Fynn river. No river to Shottisham. 1635 Mercator Atlas of the World: No local but includes the Deben and some notes on distances.  
alyson
December 29, 2019
MapsNotes

Maps of our locality

Maps and Charts of our Locality and River for comment Merged with Charts I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe. Robert Louis Stevenson For the benefit of future local historians and to feed those afflicted with curiosity, the relevant maps and charts we have found and used are…
alyson
December 27, 2019
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1845 Admiralty survey of Deben from HMS Blazer

The 1845 Admiralty survey of the Deben was exhibited as a display panel in the Woodbridge Tides of Change Exhibition Longshed in late 2019. It was obtained for the exhibition by Dr Helene Burningham of University College London in support of that project. The focus of the writer was initially to make some notes on the stretch of the Deben…
alyson
October 21, 2019
MapsNotesRoads & Paths

Parish Boundary

The official 2019 footpath map has a confusing Parish Boundary with a more southerly northern boundary and bulge at the Heath. Both maps courtesy of Suffolk County Council.     This is due to a legal technicality with the way footpaths are recorded on a 1954 map with a different boundary.  So, the footpaths are correct but the boundary isn't.…
alyson
February 26, 2019