River Marden after the rain

After a night of quite continuous rain, the river Marden at Calne reached its highest level since December 2013, reaching a height of 0.88m. The river looked and sounded wild, which doesn't take much as it's normally quite a sedate river at this location. However, this height is still nothing to the highest recorded level of 1.07m on November 21, 2012 at 14:30.

Here is a 'before' photo taken in 2017, showing standard levels for the Marden at this point. The wave-effect seating was made by Alan Tilbury was very apt on this day!

The photographs below were taken when it was at its highest level today, around 10:00, 12 March 2018. They were taken by chance as we were visiting the library!

 Looking up river towards the Co-op, with the tower of Calne Free Church showing.

 Further along the same view. The tower of St. Mary's Church is right of centre.

 Looking down river now towards the Town Hall, the Lansdowne, and the library.

Further up river, the bridge celebrating Harris's bacon factories (number 6 on the blue plaque trail).