What are the physical features of boscastle which made the flooding worse?

· Three rivers - Boscastle had three rivers passing through: The Valency, Jordan and Paradise, meet on the village of Boscastle. The Valency caused the majority of the damage. It had three rivers, which increases the chances of flooding.

· Heavy rain-was caused by extreme frontal activity. In total, 3 million tonnes of water was added to a tiny drainage basin, whose size is just 40 square kilometres.

· The soil- was already saturated from previous rainfall earlier in the week, causing the overland flood to start sooner.

· The rain -matched with the high tide in the bay. This limited the rate of exit of floodwater into the harbour.