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1774, March 10th. No travelling through the county from floods, no post 

 reaching Hereford from Leominster and Kington. 



Bath, same date. "From four days successive heavy rains flood higher 

 than ever known. " — Hereford Journal. 



1776, January 6. Tremendous snow-storm. Eight feet deep at Marlborough. 

 Seven coaches standing between London and St. Albans on the high road. 

 Bath coach brought in by fourteen horses ; had to be dug out of the snow at 

 Hungerford. Snow six feet deep in isle of "Wight. 



Hereford, January 20th. "The vast quantity of snow now on the ground 

 has not been equalled in the memory of the oldest man." Communication from 

 Hereford to London, either by coach or waggon, cut off for a week. The following 

 are said to have perished in the snow or from cold : — William Griffiths, between 

 How Caple and Sollers Hope ; James Beading, near Boss ; John Cither, Linton ; 

 John Charles, Garway ; and another man at Marcle. "Five sheep, the pro- 

 perty of a farmer at "Wimtone, Gloucestershire, dug out alive, having been in snow 

 27 and 21 days each, and likely to live." 



At St. Swithin, near Over, Gloucestershire, a sow taken out alive after 25 

 days' immersion. 



1778, July 31. Violent thunderstorm. Several people killed near Kington. 

 Steeple of Trellach Church thrown down, destroying in its fall great part of the 

 building. 



December 17. Great flood in Severn. 



December 31. Tremendous gale in Herefordshire, as well as rest of the 

 Kingdom, "W.S.W. to N.N.E. Houses unroofed in London without number, 

 many noblemen's houses included. 



At Cambridge many spires and battlements thrown down. Tremendous 

 tide at Dover. 700 trees blown down in Castle Howard Park. 



Many houses blown down in Scotland. This was supposed at time to have 

 been nearly as violent as gale of 1703. — Hereford Journal. 



1782, April 16. Portsmouth : Hurricane from S."W. Tide higher than 

 for some years. — Hereford Journal. 



1786, July 17. At Highbickington, Devon, 113 elm trees were uprooted and 

 removed upwards of 200 yards, and they remained standing upright in their 

 original flourishing state ! A rock in the same place was divided upwards of eight 

 feet asunder, and all the poultry and corn for several miles were destroyed by 

 the thunder and lightning.— Journal of Meteorology. August 16. Hailstones 

 fell as large as pigeons' eggs at North Shields. — Journal of Meteorology. 



1787, August 9. The most awful storm of thunder and lightning all night 

 that we have on record. — Orlando Whistlecraft. 



1791, Oct. 25. Church, Spedhurst, Kent, destroyed by lightning, and the 

 bells melted. Hailstones in Sussex 4 inches round.— Journal of Meteorology. 



