The Great Flood of 1607

On the morning of 20 January 1607, huge areas of South Wales and South West England were flooded. In the wake of the Asian disaster of 2004, the disaster was thought to be a tsunami, but this has been disproved. Contemporary prints show humans clinging to trees, and with animals, struggling in the waters. Broadsheets survive which show people and animals bobbing about in the waters, and people clinging to trees and sitting atop of buildings. People are described heading to work in the fields, ru