By Mike Chapman
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Although the Bristol Road which followed the river through Twerton was subject, like other parishes on the south side of Bath, to periodic flooding until the recent flood prevention scheme, the village itself was, as might be expected, sited on a terrace above the flood plane. Indeed, the High Street rises some 20 feet between the Station and the top of Connection Road, a total of about 32 feet above the river level (the church itself stands on a ‘knoll’ a further 27 feet above that). However, in the hillside behind the river is a spring-line extending westward from the top of Shophouse Road (in a field formerly known as ‘Springfield’) to the top of ‘Watery Lane’ (and ‘Poolemead’), which in extreme conditions could cause ‘flash floods’. Until the widening of Shophouse Lane and the Hollow in 1932, the torrent flowing down this narrow ‘holloway’ into the High Street could reach a depth of over 2 feet. Similarly, water flowing down into the opposite end from How Hill could make the road above Connection Hill impassable.
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