Storms and Inundations: On Sunday night the country was visited with a gale of winds more violent than we have experienced for the last ten years. It extended over the whole kingdom, and every locality has to record damage more or less. At sea the effects were fearfully disastrous, and when the morning dawned the shores were strewed with the dead bodies of sailors and passengers of ill-fated vessels, which had been destroyed by the violence of the hurricane … (detailed discussion) … At Newton the streets were flooded, and several houses were inundated with water. The late flood in November was not nearly so heavy as this – the river Lemon swelled beyond its boundaries. The marshes and the Kingsteignton road was one sheet of water, and clay barges were drifted up into the marshes. The coals of Messrs. Pinsent and Co., on the quay landing, were many of them carried away by the stream and lie in the bed of the river. Up to ten o’clock there was no passage over the Kingsteignton road, the postman was conveyed over with the bags after much trouble … (ongoing discussion) …
[Liverpool Mercury: Tuesday 16th November 1852]
[see also Leicester Journal; Friday 19th November 1852 – Newton Abbot floods]
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Referenced
GRO0518 Devonport: John Ball Pinsent: 1819 – 1901