Floods

The low-lying valleys of the district have always been subject to flooding as rainwater from the hills swells the local rivers, notably the Calder and the Ryburn.

Many incidents are recorded in the Calendar of Events:

1615 January 1673 18th May 1722 1753 1768 June 1774 18th October 1827 16th November 1830 29th November 1834 22nd June 1836 29th July 1836 1837 20th December 1837 23rd July 1855 August 1855 26th October 1855 August 1857 13th August 1857 15th August 1857 7th August 1859 December 1859 6th November 1860 12th July 1861 8th September 1861 1866 January 1866 16th November 1866 1868 9th July 1870

13th July 1872 20th July 1872 11th November 1872 10th October 1873 8th December 1874 1875 July 1875 15th July 1877 17th May 1879 23rd December 1880 January 1883 16th November 1886 19th November 1890 1899 12th July 1900 12th November 1901 1902 July 1914 10th February 1920 1st January 1925 11th February 1925 1928 June 1928 4th November 1931 1933 1944 19th September 1946 21st August 1954 1955

9th December 1964 26th September 1965 25th November 1965 9th December 1965 August 1966 17th October 1967 2nd July 1968 25th July 1972 29th August 1976 25th September 1976 2nd October 1976 January 1980 3rd January 1982 5th June 1982 July 1982 August 1982 1989 December 1991 February 1995 1999 2000 2002 30th July 2003 10th August 2004 7th January 2005 2nd July 2006 25th June 2007

Boy Bridge, Luddendenfoot Rev Patrick Brontë Charles Chambers Christ Church National School, Todmorden Matilda Clegg Clifton Beck Conery, Halifax County Bridge, Sowerby Bridge Cromwell Lakes Dumb Mill Bridge Eastwood Congregational Church: Graveyard Elland Bridge Elland-tide day Glebe Cottage, Ripponden Ha'penny Bridge, Brighouse Hebble End River Bridge, Hebden Bridge Hipperholme Railway Station Kebroyd Bridge, Triangle Luddendenfoot Railway Station

Luddendenfoot River Bridge Manshead Tunnel Mytholm, Hebden Bridge New Olympia Cinema, Todmorden Nibble & Clink Dam, Luddenden Patmos Portsmouth, Todmorden Lydia Priestley Punch Bowl, Bailiff Bridge Red Lion, Halifax Snake Hill Ford, Rastrick Stirk Bridge, Sowerby Bridge Stubbin Bridge, Hebden Bridge Summit Tunnel, Todmorden Thornhill Briggs Todmorden Flood Relief Fund Victoria Bridge, Sowerby Bridge Samuel Whitley & Company Limited

See Floods of December 2015

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