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Leighton Buzzard Flood
Extract from the Bedford Mercury
4th January 1907

As a result of the rapid thaw and heavy rains, the neighbourhood of Leighton Buzzard resembles a vast lake, miles of the countryside being under water, many people in the town itself were up all Tuesday night. Their lower apartments having become untenable, they had to take refuge in the upper rooms. To pedestrians the roads have become impassable, and carts were on Wednesday being employed to take dwellers on the outskirts of town to and from...for miles the river presents the appearance of an open sea, and the water is still rising. This gives the guide to Bedford and consequently dwellers by and near the river were prepared for the rise which has taken place here. The most rapid increase was noted between 1 and 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, when it rose more than a foot. All the low lying meadows beyond Bedford are submerged, and there is doubtless more Buckingham water to come...

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