This is the village of Nayland on the Suffolk/Essex border seen during the autumn floods of 1992.

The River Stour can be seen at the bottom of the image at it's bankfull stage. Old courses of the river have been picked out by the flood water covering the flood-plain. The settlement was probably built on the edge of the flood-plain to be safe from the reach of normal flood waters.

Much of the farmland has been ploughed ready for winter. Pasture land stands out well as the green areas. In the past large areas of the land next to the river would have been water meadows and used for grazing but this has been taken over as arable farmland and the water table lowered. Compare this with arable land in early summer.