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The Mere Bank

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What is recorded here

The Mere Bank and its flanking ditches exists as an identified medieval flood defence which may have earlier, Roman, origins. It acted as a barrier to reclaim part of the wetlands of the Avon levels. Provisionally dated to 12th-13th centuries.

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