英國每逢進入雨季雨量驚人，全球暖化海邊或湖邊水位上升，加上排水系統老化，令近年英國水災連連。所以各位在選擇定居地點和購買房屋時，必須考慮到當地的水浸情況，以免日後因水浸而要經常維修。

英國近年的水浸情況 – 聖誕節水浸

在2020年12月25日聖誕節，牛津郡的Witney 和 Fewcott因大雨而成水災，40多戶家中和路面水浸，令他們未能享受聖誕節的歡欣。

圖片來源：www.bbc.co.uk

2019年11月，Sheffield 多處嚴重水浸。從圖片可見，水位高漲能淹未整條行人路。

圖片來源：www.bbc.co.uk

2019年6月份，蘇格蘭愛丁堡多條道路，甚至火車路軌都被水淹沒。

Edinburgh Park 愛丁堡公園
愛丁堡火車路軌而要停駛

Cumbria 市政府在Keswick 的湖邊築起玻璃平幕，阻擋因大雨形成的湖水上升。

Keswick, Cumbria。圖片來源：www.bbc.co.uk

哪個地區水災情況最嚴重？

根據2018年的調查報告顯示，因海面水位上升，而最受影響的5個地區：

  1. 東岸地區，特別是 Norfolk、Peterborough,、Hull 和 Great Yarmouth
  2. Kent 和 Sussex 的沿岸地區、 包括 Birling Gap
  3. Cornwall
  4. Hampshire 地區，例如：Barton-on-Sea
  5. Isle of Wight

而英國河畔範圍的地區，河水沉積物令河水與低窪地帶並排，加上水位上升，以下這些地區經常受水災影響：

  1. Lincolnshire： Woodhall Spa、Boston、Skegness、Scunthorpe、Sandtoft
  2. Lancashire
  3. Yorkshire：Knottingley 和 Hull
  4. Cumbria
  5. Somerset：Glastonbury
  6. Kent：New Romney、Gillingham 和 Rochester
  7. Essex：Burnham-on-Crouch
  8. Norfolk：Great Yarmouth
  9. Cambridgeshire：Peterborough 和 Holbeach

查詢地區的水浸情況

英國慈善組織『Friends of the Earth』開設的網站內附有英國過往水災發生的地區圖表，將地圖放大後能仔細地了解城市受影響的程度。

https://friendsoftheearth.uk/climate/flood-map-england-and-wales-areas-risk-flooding

此外，政府官方網頁可以以郵政號碼查詢房屋在過往的水浸記錄，進入政府網頁：https://flood-warning-information.service.gov.uk/long-term-flood-risk

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