Bristol is fortunate

 In the middle

The people in Bristol often complain about the area flooding, especially around Temple Meads station. They don't realise how fortunate we are.

The name Temple Meads comes from the Old English meaning a piece of lowland near a church.

North of here, the area from Cheltenham across England as far as Liecester is an alluvial flood plain, in common terminology a mud bank here the water stays on top.

Not far to the south of here, the land is the opposite, the Somerset Levels are an area of land where the ground mops up the water like a sponge, and never dries.

The photogrpah shown is one I took decades ago at Whitby, North Yorkshire.