The Great Sheffield Flood was a flood that devastated parts of Sheffield, England, on 11 March 1864, when the Dale Dyke Dam broke as its reservoir was...
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terms of discharge Great Flood of 1851 in the Midwest U.S. Great Flood of 1862, a flood in California, U.S. Great Sheffield Flood, a flood that devastated...
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Lady's Bridge (category Bridges in Sheffield)
Station". A Complete History of the Great Flood at Sheffield on March 11 & 12, 1864. Sheffield: S Harrison, Sheffield Times Office. pp. 83–84. Wikimedia...
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Low Bradfield (category Villages of the metropolitan borough of Sheffield)
century. Low Bradfield was the first populated place to be flooded by the Great Sheffield Flood when the Dale Dyke Dam broke on 11 March 1864. The original...
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Malin Bridge (category Suburbs of Sheffield)
producer in its heyday. In 1864 Malin Bridge was devastated by the Great Sheffield Flood with 102 people killed and 20 houses destroyed in the area. Whole...
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Bradfield, South Yorkshire (redirect from Bradfield, Sheffield)
the Damflask Reservoir, Dale Dike Reservoir (the source of the Great Sheffield Flood of 1864), Strines Reservoir, and Agden Reservoirs, including the...
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the dam wall of one of these reservoirs in 1864 resulted in the Great Sheffield Flood, which killed 270 people and devastated large parts of the town...
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Loxley, South Yorkshire (redirect from Loxley, Sheffield)
the Dale Dike Reservoir was breached causing the Great Sheffield Flood. 17 people died in the flood in the Loxley area including five members of the Chapman...
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Sea flood of 1953 was one of the most devastating natural disasters ever recorded in the UK. The 2015 Great Britain and Ireland floods Great Sheffield Flood...
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Dale Dike Reservoir (category Geography of Sheffield)
valley causing the Great Sheffield Flood, which caused massive damage downstream along the Loxley and Don and through the centre of Sheffield, destroying over...
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the Great Sheffield Flood of 1864 and there was much devastation. The area only started to be built up as the district recovered from the flood with...
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The Great Sheffield Gale is the name given to an intense European windstorm which crossed the United Kingdom in mid-February 1962, devastating the city...
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Bradfield Dale (section Great Sheffield Flood)
part of Bradfield Dale was the first area to be inundated by the Great Sheffield Flood of 1864. The dale beneath the stricken Dale Dike reservoir is rural...
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deadliest floods worldwide, with a minimum of 60 deaths. 1.^ Some reports list as many as 12,000 dead. List of floods List of flash floods List of natural...
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River Loxley (category Rivers of Sheffield)
Hillsborough. The Loxley valley provided the initial course of the Great Sheffield Flood, which happened after the Dale Dyke Dam collapsed shortly before...
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notable recorded floods that have occurred in Europe. Drought Floods Directive List of floods 2021 European floods List of flash floods Storm tides of the...
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engineer of the Sheffield Water Company at the time of the collapse of Dale Dyke Dam on 11 March 1864, which resulted in the Great Sheffield Flood. Samuel Harrison...
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the Great Sheffield Flood. Sheffield's transport infrastructure was also improved. In the 18th century turnpike roads were built connecting Sheffield with...
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Ireland 2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods Great Sheffield Flood Flood risk assessment Rihanna Curse "Key points: Pitt report on floods". BBC News....
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Eden, Philip. "THE SHEFFIELD GALE OF 1962" (PDF). Royal Meteorological Society. Retrieved 1 February 2022. "Hundreds homeless after flood havoc". The Times...
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River Don, Yorkshire (category Rivers of Sheffield)
"Reconstruction tender selection". Sheffield City Council. Retrieved 29 November 2010. "Great Sheffield Flood Pictures (7)". Sheffield University. Retrieved 29...
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flooding had previously crossed the United Kingdom as the Great Sheffield Gale, devastating the city of Sheffield and killing nine people. The flood was...
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Teton Dam (category 1970s floods in the United States)
Safe Place (1980), hosted by Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland. Great Sheffield Flood St. Francis Dam, a concrete dam near Los Angeles, which failed in...
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consulting engineer on the Dale Dyke Dam which collapsed causing the Great Sheffield Flood. He also known for his work on the breakwater at Portland harbour...
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Extreme inflow (Shakidor Dam) Human, computer or design error (Buffalo Creek Flood, Dale Dike Reservoir, Taum Sauk pumped storage plant) Internal erosion or...
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Thomas Jessop (category Councillors in Sheffield)
As Mayor, he had to deal with the Great Sheffield Flood of 1864. Thomas Jessop was born on Blast Lane, Sheffield, the son of William Jessop (1772–1835)...
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Little Matlock Rolling Mill (category Industrial buildings and structures in Sheffield)
hammer. The hamlet of Little Matlock was severely damaged by the Great Sheffield Flood of March 1864, it was accentuated by the fact that the River Loxley...
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Listvyazhnaya, Russia. 40 men died in the accident. March 11, 1864: The Great Sheffield Flood. The Dale Dyke Dam, at Bradfield, South Yorkshire, collapsed when...
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River Rivelin (category Rivers of Sheffield)
cutlery and was the only one in the valley to be damaged by the Great Sheffield Flood due to the water backing up the valley. The mill stopped production...
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Hillsborough (ward) (category Wards of Sheffield)
devastated by the Great Sheffield flood, which happened in 1864 when the Dale Dyke Dam collapsed while it was filling for the first time. The flood swept down...
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