Homes in a Surrey town are less likely to flood thanks to a council project to rebuild hundred-year-old drains.

Guildford Borough Council has repaired the town's century-old water drainage systems.

The move was prompted by flooding in 2000, when more than 60 homes were damaged by flood water.

Council workers looked at old maps to find the history of the town's watercourses, ditches and sewers.

Widespread flooding

When they investigated, they found many of these had been filled in - so the council took action to restore the historic drainage systems.

Reece Collins, engineering manager for Guildford Borough Council, claims the rebuilding project means about 300 properties are now less at risk of flooding.

Many homes in Guildford and Weybridge were placed in danger in 2000, after the River Wey burst its banks.

And parts of Surrey, including Chertsey, Staines and Egham, suffered widespread flooding at the beginning of 2003.