The heavy rain that fell over Christmas and at the start of the new year once again resulted in the river and it's tributaries bursting their banks flooding the Ock Meadow flood plain - as seen on Saturday 4th January.
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By Friday 10th January the river level had dropped, but the lower Ock was still very high:
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Although the weir where the upper and lower Ocks rejoin was completely submerged.
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And the often photographed and benchmark for river levels was half way down the T of Bristol when this photograph was taken on Friday morning.
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Whilst the Ock has been high this year, it has not been as problematic as the Thames. Whilst Oxford has been badly hit (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-25638919) most of the Abingdon flooding has been consigned to the fields that make up the floodplain.
Such as Barton Fields:
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And the nearby fields:
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