Sandbags placed on the water's edge to prevent the adjacent footpath from being flooded by the overflowing chalk stream during a period of unusually h

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Sandbags placed on the water's edge to prevent the adjacent footpath from being flooded by the overflowing chalk stream during a period of unusually high river levels. The stream is Letcombe Brook in Wantage, Oxfordshire

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