That's the trouble with being stuck in a cottage, if it turns bad your stuck, should get a caravan, you can always go elsewhere

I seem to remember reading that the Land Rover recommendation was to send the passenger through the flood on foot to test the depth. The boss lady doesn't believe this either!

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That's the trouble with being stuck in a cottage, if it turns bad your stuck, should get a caravan, you can always go elsewhere

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chicken george wrote:

does it always rain so much in Derbishire? what a memorable holiday.

In my experience, there is no definitive answer to the original question. LR list their vehicle's wading depth with the usual level of caution we come to expect in this 'modern society', where so many things end up being argued in court.

There will be times when wading over 500mm will be absolutely fine, anfd there will be times when vehicles have ended up in distress in much shallower water.

My advise would always be if you want to challenge your vehicle, learn to do it before trying to challenge yourself, by tackling flowing water. Join a green laning group who'll teach you properly how to handle your vehicle off tarmac. Or 4x4 response team, and recieve the training they'll deliver. Or book an advnture type day/break, where you'll be accompanied and trained by experienced people.

Please, please, don't just point your landy towards water / snow etc, and push the faster pedal, thinking everything will be fine. It usually won't! The quality of the 'seat - stick interface' is as important as vehicle, off the tarmac. A well driven Freelander will go much further than a poorly driven Defender / D4 / RR etc.

Best advice!

the rain in Derbyshire got worse and worse


its a good job the RRS has the optional floods and fording setting on the terrain response
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Excellent work CG  LL.B (Hons) - University of Derby
LOT (Lord of Time) - University of Gallifrey

Now then CG - its been a very long time indeed but, from memory that looks like the boating lake down "Little Switzerland" in the Matlock Dale as Daniel Defoe once remarked. Not flood waters you rogue

Byron's observation "that there are things in Derbyshire as noble as in Greece or Switzerland" was accurate, and noble indeed was your son's stoic gesture to welcome on board his ship the scurvy landlubber aka CG. The lad deserves a medal.

I'll report back after having mine a few years as to how salt water "helps" the FL2.

Living on an island prone to flooding at a simple high tide, we tend to go through lots of CV joints, boots, etc. around here. But considering my VW Passat managed to last 'til 155,000 miles, I'm expecting big things from my Landie.  CAR HISTORY
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2003 Volkswagen Passat 1.8T
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Deserves a medal he ran over a flock of ducks and crashed into a gnome


Matlock isnt really a little Switzerland more of a little land locked Scarborough really, We did see some small areas of flash flooding a few sandbagged houses but no real floods in that local.

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I quiet agree CG - Matlock and in particular Matlock Bath has steadily gone down hill over the past decades.

Matlock's spa baths are but a distant feint echo of the grand dame's Victorian vibrance. As a child in the summer we'd occasionally go down there on a regular service steam train service to swim in the open air Lido - that's been shut nearly 45yrs now. In those days there were no amusement arcades. As a youth I and my mates again would venture south but this time by road to watch live rock bands in the Pavilion at Matlock Bath. Its roof decayed and the last I saw it was boarded up in danger of collapse. Trying to replicate a seaside resort inland has profited only a few Tartuffians, whose shoddy and trivial spoiling of what was a natural beauty spot and an industrial heritage site, into now a depository of rapacious commercialisation.

When I'm El Presidenté of the Republic of Derbyshire I'll shoot the bl**dy lot of'em (all absent landlords on the Costa Brava - and a couple of'em own caravan sites around Matlock) and restore the dale to its impressive natural majesty.

I must say it was an excellent place to take two young kids, especially in the poor weather, there are lots of family venues ,Chatsworth,Crich tram museum etc etc.

Our luxurious log cabin resort had a great swimming pool,and one a huge soft play center (I hate the places but the kids love them), and to console me in my wet bedraggled state the bar sold an excellent pint of Tetleys Yorkshire bitter.
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chicken george wrote:

Perhaps the highlight of the holiday was when a Scotsman bought me a pit of Yorkshire bitter in Derbyshire

That's about as close as it gets to winning the lottery - well done

Won't be long until I will be up in Derbyshire, will staying at the grounds of Chatsworth House also