Devonshire: During the last few days, the neighbourhood of Newton Abbotts has been visited with one of the most destructive floods ever remembered. The late heavy and almost incessant rains caused the rivers Lemon and Teign to rise to an enormous height, and great fears were entertained lest the water would overflow the banks. … (continues) … Mr. Pinsent had about 100 tons of coal washed away from the Marsh and is otherwise a great sufferer from the flood. Altogether the damage which the calamity has caused is estimated at something like £1,000.
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GRO0518 Devonport: John Ball Pinsent: 1819 – 1901