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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 43-year-old former wing's car was swept away while he tried to drive across a Northumbrian ford during Storm Darragh last month.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2025
For decades, cars have been splashing through a notorious ford to the delight of onlookers, making it both a tourist attraction and social media sensation.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 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
"They must have found a ford by now well to the east of us. From there they will try to ride straight to Anvard."
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
There are regularly stories of drivers who end up going through floods, fords and teetering on the edge of canals after following their GPS systems, prompting warnings about the dangers of slavishly following the route.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026
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
Such maps focused on roads, passes and fords, ignoring everything to left or right of the main route.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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
Undermanned and outgunned Californios attacked U.S. troops as they forded the San Gabriel River.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2020
Like he had forded a raging river and come to the other side.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
Ragnar, the kind of fellow for whom riding a horse and fording a river are second nature, despises Lucas from the moment they meet, and the antipathy proves more than mutual.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 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
He described fording knee-deep mud in the jungles of the Darién Gap linking Colombia and Panama.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 25, 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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