Snailwell

On the other hand, the signs are worrying, even in Snailwell.

Fears of British super-drought after record low rainfall in winter 2012

If engineers from the Environment Agency had not started pumping water into Snailwell's pond every day this winter, it would have disappeared weeks ago, the victim of a drought that now threatens much of England with a summer of parched landscapes, rivers reduced to trickles and possible hosepipe bans ahead.

Fears of British super-drought after record low rainfall in winter 2012

The pond at St Peter's Church in Snailwell, Cambridgeshire, is surrounded by clumps of bulrushes and thick oak trees that give it a timeless English appeal.

Fears of British super-drought after record low rainfall in winter 2012

Instead of being replenished by rain percolating through the ground, boreholes are being used to pump what water they have left to prevent rivers and streams drying up – as is being done at Snailwell.

Fears of British super-drought after record low rainfall in winter 2012

Much anxiety surrounds his proposal to build 1,200 houses and a buisness park on Hatchfield Farm, a property close to the small village of Snailwell, one of Newmarket's many satellites.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

Chocolate: Waitrose Organic Swiss Dark Chocolate 70% sent to us by Elizabeth in Snailwell, England.

More Hip Than Hippie Podcast 2010

Chocolate: Waitrose Organic Swiss Dark Chocolate 70% sent to us by Elizabeth in Snailwell, England.

More Hip Than Hippie Podcast 2010

Chocolate: Waitrose Organic Swiss Dark Chocolate 70% sent to us by Elizabeth in Snailwell, England.

More Hip Than Hippie Podcast 2010

Chocolate: Waitrose Organic Swiss Dark Chocolate 70\% sent to us by Elizabeth in Snailwell, England.

More Hip Than Hippie Podcast 2009

NEW: A14, Cambridgeshire - Snailwell, nr Newmarket

EDP24 News 2009