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Encyclopedia: Great Sheffield Flood

The Great Sheffield Flood, also known as the Great Inundation, was a disaster that devastated parts of Sheffield, England on March 11 1864, when the Dale Dyke Dam broke.

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Dale-Dyke-Staudamm

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River Loxley

The River Loxley is a river in South Yorkshire, England. Its source is north west of Sheffield, near Low Bradfield. It flows into the River Rivelin at Malin Bridge. The river provided the initial course of the Great Sheffield flood, which happened after the Dale Dyke Dam collapsed shortly before...

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Malin Bridge

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Bradfield

, having been largely destroyed in the Great Sheffield flood of the 1850s... Bradfield is a village in the borough of Sheffield, England and is situated in the Peak District... on Yorkshire’s border with Derbyshire to the Sheffield suburb of Stannington. High Bradfield...

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Great Sheffield flood

The Great Sheffield Flood , also known as the Great Inundation , was a disaster which devastated parts of Sheffield, England on March 11th 1864. The flood resulted in more deaths than any other disaster in Britain before or since. The flood occurred when the Dale Dyke Dam, under construction above...

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List of disasters

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March 11

of the Confederate States of America is adopted. 1864 - The Great Sheffield Flood: The largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield. 1888 - The Great Blizzard of... - Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (d. 1595) 1725 - Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great...

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City of Sheffield

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Sheffield

were devastated by the Great Sheffield Flood, when the Sheffield Waterworks Company's Dale Dyke dam... This article is about the city in England. For other uses see Sheffield. Sheffield is a... greater metropolitan borough of Sheffield, it has grown, from its industrial roots to encompass a...

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