The River Welland is high today, as it was in January last year. We turned back rather than take the car through a flooded patch of road.A bit later we were diverted near Rutland Water where the new Oakham bypass seems to have been built along the flood plain - not the Welland.
We walked at Rutland Water, which has been fairly full recently - a change from the last couple of years.
By the time we returned near the viaduct it was too late to take photos, so I'm posting one from last year. Normally the river follows its narrow course, but the valley is wide and floods regularly as water drains from further upstream. It looks spectacular, but it's not a place to build houses.
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