What a stupid, asinine conversation this is. The town didn't flood 200 years ago like this. It doesn't flood because all the rain falls on Tenbury : it falls on the hills which create the River Teme. Hills which have been stripped of trees, and changed to prevent farmland flooding.. If the fields don't flood, Tenbury will, as the water is sent straight into the town. The cost of rewilding the Shropshire Hills is a fraction of building walls downstream