Looking up the Avon valley, its flood plain awash, beds of reeds swaying, I'm minded to think that this must of been, or similar too, what the area would have looked like during prehistory. Although, the water, not focused and controlled would have had greater or more permanent tenure. It those times people lived with the land, as part of nature, and the area would have been rich in valuable resources and frequently exploited. The people living on the surrounding high ground or in crannog style lake villages. Unlike modern, sophisticated folk, these primitive people understood that you'd get wet if you built your house on a flood plain, well, that's progress I suppose.
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