. FLOODS AT ALKHAM: THE DRELLIXGORE STREAM. The romantic name comes from the old Norman- French " Drelincourt," the name of an extinct manorial family once holding land in these parts. The water- course is often dry for years, and the filling of it is thus a local event, long ago made the subject of legends of dread and prophecies of scarcity. Thus the old saying : When Drellingore stream flows to Dover town, Wheat shall be forty shillings and barley a pound. So much a quarter is understood by that. Well, then, Drellingore stream burst out with exceptional floods in April, 1914, and
. FLOODS AT ALKHAM: THE DRELLIXGORE STREAM. The romantic name comes from the old Norman- French " Drelincourt," the name of an extinct manorial family once holding land in these parts. The water- course is often dry for years, and the filling of it is thus a local event, long ago made the subject of legends of dread and prophecies of scarcity. Thus the old saying : When Drellingore stream flows to Dover town, Wheat shall be forty shillings and barley a pound. So much a quarter is understood by that. Well, then, Drellingore stream burst out with exceptional floods in April, 1914, and flowed to Dover town, and flooded the valley at Alkham. Wheat was then round about 37^. lOld. a quarter, and barlev was 20s. ^cl Wheat had been steadily rising from its lowest, at 22s. lOd. in 1894 ; and barley from 21^. lid. in 1895. Barley was never so low as 206-. What, therefore, is the implication of the ominous legend, in respect of barley ? In less than four months the Great War, 1914-18
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