Original sentence: The Isbourne is a brook, three or four metres wide and less than a metre deep, that  occasionally floods.The building that formerly housed a village village school has been converted into houses.The main A46 from Evesham to Cheltenham passes through the parish and is crossed by the Broadway to Pershore Road (formerly The London Road) at Hinton Cross but the majority of the houses are located on a quiet loop...The most notable recent flood was in July 2007 when the small river became into a torrent about a hundred metres wide and five metres deep.The single shop in the village  is specialised in  tyhe sale of agricultural machinery.Two houses built on the river bank suffered serious damage; but the rest of the village is well above the flood plain and avoided the devastation that hit nearby Sedgeberrow just a mile upstream
Edited sentence: ) at Hinton Cross but the majority of the houses are on a quiet loop road that goes nowhere.But it is prone to the occasional flood.Regrettably, the two houses built virtually on the river's bank suffered serious damage; but the rest of the village is well above the flood plain and avoided the mass devastation that hit nearby Sedgeberrow just a mile upstream.The Isbourne is a quiet little brook, three or four metres wide and less than a metre deep.The main A46 from Evesham to Cheltenham passes through the parish and is crossed by the Broadway to Pershore Road (which used to be called The London Road.The most notable recent flood was in July 2007 when the river turned into a torrent about a hundred metres wide and five metres deep.The village's pub, like the station and shop, is also little more than a hazy memory to most parishioners.There is still a shop in the village - but it sells tractors rather than newspapers.There used to be a school close to the church, sadly now closed and turned into houses