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I'm afraid it's not just the lawn it's the whole garden. As soon as we get any sort of substantial rain the whole garden turns into a bog. I live at the bottom on the hill and suspect that much of the water is moving down from gardens higher up the hill. So thought that digging a soak away...

Thanks for the reply Masona. The entire layer of soil in my garden gets completely waterlogged when it rains, so I don't see how a soak away of this kind could work. My entire garden has layer of clay (of uknown thickness) about 2' down, so where does the water soak away too?

Hello all.. I've got a garden which gets totally waterlogged after heavy rain. Thinking that a soak away might help I dug a hole. After about 2.5' of top soil I hit solid clay. So far I've dug another 2' and it's still solid clay and bored out a hole another 1.5' and it's STILL solid...