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The Bedford Level Corporation (or alternatively the Corporation of the Bedford Level) was founded in England in 1663 to manage the draining of the Fens of East Central England. It formalised the legal status of the Company of Adventurers previously formed by the Duke of Bedford to reclaim 95,000 acres of the Bedford Level.
The Fens or Fenlands in eastern England are a naturally marshy region supporting a rich ecology and numerous species. Most of the fens were drained centuries ago, resulting in a flat, dry, low-lying agricultural region supported by a system of drainage channels and man-made rivers ( dykes and drains) and automated pumping stations .
The area is bounded on the northwest and east by the River Nene and Ouse washes, on the north by previously drained Marshland silts and to the south and west by low clay hills. The Middle Level river system consists of over 120 miles (190 km) of watercourses most of which are statutory navigations and has a catchment of over 170,000 acres (690 ...
Bogs of England (30 P) The Broads (2 C, 3 P) F. Fens of England (23 P) M. Marshes of England (1 C, 18 P) O. Otmoor (12 P) R. Ramsar sites in England (1 C, 131 P) S ...
This site has one of the few remaining ranges of flora characteristic of the East Anglian Fens. There are rare fen plants such as fen wood-rush and fen violet, and ditches have uncommon aquatic plants including bladderwort and water violet. [282] Woodwalton Marsh: 0.8 hectares (2.0 acres) [283] YES Ramsey
Alfred Bog - a dome bog in eastern Ontario, Canada sphagnum bog east of Ottawa in eastern Ontario; The Bog - a putrescent lowland in Saint-Henri, Quebec known for its diverse array of toads and squires; Burns Bog - in British Columbia, the largest domed peat bog in North America; Eagle Hill Bog - A small spaghnum bog on Campobello Island, New ...
The Lincolnshire Fens are an area of low-lying land which have been subject to flooding and attempts to prevent it for centuries. In medieval times, the Midfen Dyke was built to drain the area, but by 1500, this was regarded less as a drain for the land than as a boundary marker between the Parts of Holland and the Parts of Kesteven, two of the three medieval subdivisions of Lincolnshire which ...
Holme Fen is a 269.4-hectare (666-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Holme in Cambridgeshire. [1] [2] It is also a National Nature Reserve [3] and a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I. [4] It is part of the Great Fen project, which aims to create a 3,700-hectare wetland wildlife area including Holme Fen, Woodwalton Fen and other areas. [5]