an area of land near a river that may be covered with water during a flood is called a floodplain or flood plain.
an area of land near a river that may be covered with water during a flood is called a floodplain or flood plain.
an area of land near a river that may be covered with water during a flood is called a?
floodplain or flood plain
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in the west molesey area some houses are the result of over-optimistic development in the 1930s by developer donald gordon howard who eventually went bankrupt trying to sell houses at exceptionally low prices - at £395 some of the cheapest in the london area - while implying a misleading proximity to hampton court. the attraction was cheap, low-lying land near the london reservoirs and quite remote from transport links, especially the railway. speculative land dealing and building go back a long way in the area. much of east molesey resulted from large scale land speculation in the 1850s by one francis jackson kent who saw an opportunity to make a killing when the railway arrived at hampton court in 1849, quickly snapping up land nearby and selling it on to wealthy individuals or developers who rapidly built on low lying former meadows that had always been flood prone. they naturally remained so until the 1960s when the nearby river mole was re channeled after a hugely expensive flood. pictures of the east molesey area and hampton court station environs (on the opposite bank to the palace) in flood conditions recur in 19th and 20th centuries.
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