Bristol Channel

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• In historical time, several small ports existed at the mouths of rivers draining into the Bristol Channel from South Wales.

  Academic text (1991)

• The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries saw erosion gaining the upper hand along many sections of the Bristol Channel, but storms were especially numerous during the sixteenth century.

  Academic text (1991)

• Seiching in southern Britain is not well known, particularly in the Bristol Channel.

  Academic text (2009)

• Since the decline and destruction of the port, many other large-scale storms have been documented for the Bristol Channel.

  Academic text (1991)

• During a southwesterly gale in the Bristol Channel on 3 December 2006, a 1.5-meter surge occurred.

  Academic text (2009)

• Rain clouds cover the country from Lyme Bay to the Bristol Channel, like a vast blanket shaken by the wind, and the edge of the storm reaches north into Wales.

  Fiction book (1994)

• In this context, the one-hundred-year storm surge for the eastern zone of the Bristol Channel is at present 7.8 meters above the mean high water mark (Williams and Davies 1987b).

  Academic text (1991)

• For example, a debate is currently taking place over the cause of a catastrophic flood in the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in 1607 that appears to have resulted in around 2,000 fatalities.

  Academic text (2009)

• Wind velocities in excess of 140 kilometers an hour and a surge of 3.1 meters were recorded in the Bristol Channel for this storm, and extensive damage to coastal property and structures resulted (Fig. 5).

  Academic text (1991)

• During a nighttime gale, the 19 October Times reported, "between 8 and 9 o'clock a huge tidal wave, rolling in from the Bristol Channel at high tide, covered all the low-lying land." The wave flooded the tunnel, and one construction worker drowned.

  Academic text (2009)

Surface Forms

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Etymology