Environment

Given all the rain sleet and, briefly, snow, we had last week 42mm in all. It probably won't come as too much of a surprise that the water levels in the Tilshead aquifer, which had been falling...

This is the first bulletin of the 2017-2018 season.  Water levels in the Tilshead borehole are very low (arrowed) and over the last week have actually fallen by 30mm.  There has been a little rain...

Please see the latest on Summer Solstice 2017 from English Heritage here:  SS17 MESSAGE TO THE LOCAL...

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Well, this is the last of the planned Tilshead Borehole Level bulletins for the winter of 2016-2017.  We've had the most uneventful winter, at least as far as rain goes, in the last 4 years which...

We've had a surprising volume of rain over the last week, already making March 2017 the second wettest since we have been monitoring the water levels in the Tilshead borehole during the winter.  ...

At the Parish Council Meeting on 20th March 2017, the Chairman expressed his disgust, having recently become a dog owner again, at the large amount of dog faeces being deposited along Church Street -...

A very odd week indeed.  As predicted last Friday, with spring well under-way, trees coming into bud, grass growing, and very little rain, the water level in the Tilshead borehole continued to fall...

Apologies for the late publication of this weeks flood report, I've been away in the north.   Well, whilst I've been away spring has well and truly sprung and despite having one day already this...

Only one month remaining of this year's monitoring period and water levels are more than 5m below the 4 year average.  During February, we had 45mm of rain which is about the same levels we had back...