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Closing Derwent Mouth Flood Gates

  • Writer: The Purple Boat
    The Purple Boat
  • Jan 21, 2021
  • 1 min read

The flood gates aka Shardlow flood gates are winched closed by hand, a slow process but the only way. This protects the Trent & Mersey Canal, and the village from flood waters from the Rivers Trent and Derwent




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