Showing posts with label Sprotbrough flooding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sprotbrough flooding. Show all posts

Friday, January 22, 2021

Flooding In The Don Gorge

Another local walk along the banks of the River Don going to Sprotbrough and beyond. I used both the old railway bridge and the Conisbrough Viaduct to get across the gorge to the other side.

A photograph of another part of the large mural painted on the bridge that I needed to go under on my way to Newton.













As I approached Sprotbrough I spotted the first signs of this week's floods.









I couldn't reach the fish pass because of  the floods; I didn't need to go there though.



This next flooded stretch was blocking my way and I needed to find a way round it by climbing up through the woods.



I still had to wade through a flooded gully though, the water was about a foot deep.

I always like to photograph Steetley Quarry in the sunshine.







I managed some different angles and compositions of Conisbrough Viaduct. The man in the second photograph was doing a training walk, he'd already climbed up and jogged down the hill fourteen times - I think it's about one hundred foot high.






I continued on my way back to the seating area down by the river at Sprotbrough, taking the high level footpath.














Not too far from home, as I was walking through the park at Hexthorpe I noticed that The Dell area was closed due to the floods.