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The floods followed a lengthy cold period with freezing weather lasting from September 1682 until February 1683. Nottinghamshire suffered regular and heavy snowfalls during this period. The thawing of snow and breaking up of river ice caused significant flooding on 5 and 6 February, affecting the
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appointed a committee to rebuild the bridge. The work, carried out in 1684, installed stone arches. The number of spans in the river was reduced to 15, over a distance of around 538 feet (164 m); when taken with an adjacent roadway support structure and two flood-relief arches the overall
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length was 205 metres (673 ft), somewhat shorter than the structure it replaced. . The piers of the first five arches, and possibly a further two, were rebuilt completely as part of the works. The remaining piers, which had been rebuilt around the time of the
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Downstream at Newark-on-Trent the Town Bridge was also swept away and the riverside fields flooded. The damage at nearby
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at Nottingham consisted of more than twenty stone piers covered by a wooden deck. The bridge was badly damaged by
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Newark's Town Bridge had been rebuilt by 1700 with a wooden deck spanning the surviving stone piers.
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The Annals of Newark-upon-Trent: Comprising the History, Curiosities, and Antiquities of the Borough
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History of the Old Trent Bridge, with a Descriptive Account of the New Bridge, Nottingham
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History of the Old Trent Bridge, with a Descriptive Account of the New Bridge, Nottingham
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British River Navigations: Inland Cuts, Fens, Dikes, Channels and Non-tidal Rivers
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moving down the river and much of the northern half was swept away.
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Memoirs of the Geological Survey: England and Wales. ...
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Civil Engineering Heritage: Eastern and central England
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Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club
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River Trent
Nottinghamshire
melting snow
ice floes
Hethbeth or Trent Bridge
Nottingham
Newark-on-Trent
Hethbeth or Trent Bridge
ice floes
Holme, Nottinghamshire
North Muskham
Lincolnshire
Swithin
Nottingham Corporation
English Civil Wars



Natural phenomena and chronology of the seasons
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"The day when Christmas revellers skated on a frozen River Trent"
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History of the Old Trent Bridge, with a Descriptive Account of the New Bridge, Nottingham
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Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club
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