Worcester: Cathedral, Porcelain, and the Severn
The River Severn floods Worcester with reasonable regularity. The cricket ground, one of the most photographed in England, sits in the flood plain below the Cathedral and is underwater every few years. Worcestershire CCC continues to play there regardless, a decision that owes more to sentiment than to drainage engineering. The Cathedral itself, begun in the eleventh century and largely rebuilt in the fourteenth, houses the tomb of King John and overlooks the river from its elevated position.
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The River Severn floods Worcester with reasonable regularity. The cricket ground, one of the most photographed in England, sits in the flood plain below the Cathedral and is underwater every few years. Worcestershire CCC continues to play there regardless, a decision that owes more to sentiment than to drainage engineering. The Cathedral itself, begun in the eleventh century and largely rebuilt in the fourteenth, houses the tomb of King John and overlooks the river from its elevated position.
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