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The river height marker was left completely dry at a ford on the River Redlake in Bucknell, Shropshire.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
It is thought the former wing's vehicle was swept away while he tried to drive across a ford during Storm Darragh.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2025
A water level indicator at the ford showed the river was still around one foot deep, but it would have been much higher at the weekend when Storm Darragh lashed the UK.
From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2024
According to a council report, an average of 1,900 vehicles used to go down Rufford Lane every day before the ford closed.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2024
Ab Russell was in his lot, but I didn’t bother to ask him and I hadn’t got out of sight of his barn hardly when I saw the ford.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
The reroute required building a small bridge and establishing new creek fords.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2022
“The planned route is at least 135 miles long, and depending on the?deviations, avoiding avalanche risks, finding safe river fords, and?wandering in the trees, it could be as much as 150 miles,” Williams said.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 22, 2016
You have to ford numerous rivers, and the Shoshones, Pawnees and Sioux, were extremely adept at helping the pioneers make these fords.
From National Geographic ● Jul. 12, 2015
Painted in garish colours, Wayne fords a river in a stagecoach pulled by a team of wild-eyed horses.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2013
He also told of fighting farther upstream, where Lord Karyl Vance held the fords.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
He has picked his way across roads and railways, forded local streams and swum across the River Danube.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2025
Akil continues down the road that Blume's 1975 novel forded, accurately capturing adolescence's hidden longing and confusion.
From Salon ● May 21, 2025
Klemperer and his colleagues, including collaborators in China, traversed dirt roads and forded streams to collect samples from some 200 natural springs across nearly 1000 kilometers of southern Tibet.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 9, 2024
In the unforgiving terrain of the east, such as in the Korengal Valley, the boots broke down quickly as soldiers made strenuous climbs and forded ice-cold streams.
From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2021
Streams we could have forded easily enough—Marlene seemed quite happy to go back and forth carrying two of us at a time.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
Some had their belongings stolen or damaged while fording rivers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
Scotty Jalbert, emergency services manager for San Luis Obispo County, said river crossings can be deceiving and people can run into trouble after successfully fording them several times.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2023
I did research other options but they all seemed to involve fording rivers and oxen dying.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2022
Jeep says the Grand Cherokee 4xe is capable of water fording up to 24 inches.
From The Verge ● Sep. 29, 2021
A great white cow was fording through the river of traffic, vehicles parting to let it through.
From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman
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