Local photographer John Burrows has captured one of the highest tides of the year - at 14.5 metres - taken from the banks of the River Wye in Chepstow on 23rd March. The day before was just inches higher at 14.6 metres.

Only two places on Earth, both in Canada, record higher tides than Chepstow and then by only 1.5 metres.

The highest tides of every month are called ’spring tides’ in the sense that ’spring’ means ’to leap’.

There are two more 14.6 metre tides and a 14.5 metre tide later this year on the Monmouthshire coast in September but they will be in the late evening when it could be dark.

The highest ’day-time’ spring tides still to come this year are in April, September and October peaking on 20th April (14.2m), 1st September (14.2m), 30th September (14.4m), 1st October (14.3m) and 29th October (14.3m).

Incidentally Cheptow Bridge, seen in the picture, is not only the oldest iron arch road bridge in Wales but the largest iron arch road bridge in the world built before 1830.

Also known as the Old Wye Bridge it was built in 1816 by John Urpeth Rastrick and is now a Grade I Listed Structure of world importance.