Black Bull Main Street Cockermouth
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The photograph on this page of Black Bull Main Street Cockermouth by Jennifer Petrie as part of the Geograph project.
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Black Bull Main Street Cockermouth
Image: © Jennifer Petrie Taken: 14 Oct 2019
Cockermouth suffered devastating floods in 2009 when a month's rain fell in 24 hours.The flood waters rose to 2.5 metres/8.2 'and 200 people had to be rescued. Here on the wall of the Black Bull the flood level is marked. Cockermouth has now installed in 2013 the UK's first self-closing flood barriers
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Image Location
Latitude
54.663606
Longitude
-3.363481