somerset levels 2014

• Location: Somerset, South West England
• • Low lying farmland and wetlands
• • Bordered by the Bristol Channel, Quantock Hills and Mendip Hills
• • Area is drained by several rivers which flow to the Severn Estuary
• • Flooding has occurred here naturally for centuries
• • The area has been developed for farmland and settlement – many people are now at risk from extreme flood events