Height 
Mr. 
Height 
AS COR- 
Creer’s 
Date. 
AS 
RECTED 
TO 
Present 
Remarks and Authority. 
Results. 
Given. 
Gauge. 
Ft. 
Tn. 
Ft. In. 
, - 
1263 (Snow). . 
18 
0 
18 
3 
D. 
Flooded across from North St. to Skeldergate, 
p. 281. “Highest known.” 
1564 . 
18 
0 ? 
N. 
Two arches of Ouse Bridge washed away. 
North St. flooded for 10 days. Frost and Snow. 
1614, March 
18 
0? 
D. 
Jan. 16—Mar. 10. “ Highest ever remembered.” 
1625, Feb. 
18 
8 
18 
3 
L. and date on City walls, St. George’s Field. 
1636 . 
18 
0 
17 
6 
Lin 
s and date on City walls, St. George’s Field. 
1689, Oct... . 
16 
9 
18 
3 
L., 
&c. 8 or 10 inches higher than 1636: as high as 
1263. 
1732, Jan. 
17 
10 
17 
4 
D. 
Eleven inches below 1689. 
16 3 
1763, Dec. 
17 
X 1 
°2 
16 
91 
“2 
L. 
“ York Antiquities, 1785, says: ‘higher than ever 
known by 8 inches.’ ” But have the brass plate 
at Ouse Bridge Inn. 
1783, Feb. .. 
15 
11 
. . 
N. 
1795 . 
18 
0 
16 
4 
M.T. Corrected bv recent floods. 
1809 . 
17 
4 
15 
10 
L., 
M.T. (Not in Mr. Leetham’s list.) 
Leetham’s list (see note.) 
1 824, Oct. 
1824, Dec. 
14 
7 
Mr. 
14 
rr 
1 
L. 
17 1 
1831, Feb. 10 
18 
17 
6 | 
2 ) 
16 
8 
L., M.T., &c. 
&c. 
1837, Jan. 
13 
0 
L. 
Dec. 
14 
0 
L. 
1839, Sept. .. 
1840, Jan. 
13 
0 
L. 
14 
0 
L. 
1841, Jan. 
14 
0 
L. 
1852, Oct. 
12 
0 
L. 
1854, Jan. 
13 
9 
L. 
1855, Oct. 
1856, Jan. 
12 
5 
L. 
12 
6 
L. 
Sept. 
13 
4 
L. 
Oct. 
15 
6 
15 
0 
L. 
Was at least 8 inches lower at Naburn than in 1892. 
f’astlegate was flooded. But highest from 1831— 
’92 at York. 
1866 . 
1868, Feb. 
16 
Of 
13 
0 
L. 
1869, Feb. 5.. 
16 
4 
14 
10? 
L. 
Mr. Reader, at Naburn : 8 inches lower there than 
! 
in 1892. The Nidd accident. 
Dec. 
15 
6f 
12 
6 
L. 
1870, Jan. 
14 
0 
13 
10 
L. 
Rose just upon tesselated pavement in Hospitium. 
(Canon Raine.) 
In this flood we boated over the hedge in one case, 
along the foot-path to the waterworks. (J.E.C.) 
M ) ? .... 
13 
0 
13 
0 
L. 
1875 Jan.15.. 
12 
6 
12 
6 
L. 
1877, Jan. 1 .. 
13 
0 
13 
0 
N. 
1877, March .. 
12 
9 
L. 
1878. Oct. 
12 
6 
12 
6 
T.C. 
1880, Nov. 15 
12 
6 
12 
6 
T.C. 
,, Dec. 15 
12 
6 
12 
6 
T.C. 
In the first week. 
,, Dec. 24 
12 
0 
12 
0 
T.C. 
1881, Mar. 10 
13 
11 
13 
9 
. J.E.C. Reduced by 2 inches to correspond with the 
1 correction of the Ouse Bridge gauge given by 
[ 
1892, Oct. 16 
15 
10 
1 
15 
8 
\ 
( 
Mr. Creer in his November Report (1892), 
Ouse Navigation Committee. 
Reference Letters. D — Drake’s Eboracum ; N —Newspaper Cuttings; L—M,r. Leetham’s List 
(earlier from Drake, &c.); M.T. —Record at Mary gate Tanyard; T.C.— Town Clerk’s Records, 
f Probably an error of 3 feet in the records. A break, apparently, from 1856 to 1866. The 
original of these returns (marked T.C.) is now in the hands of Mr. T. Humphries, 15, High 
Ousegate, who received them from Mr. Leetham, by whom the earlier entries were collected, and 
the later recorded up to 1875. 
