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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 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 ...
The Fens were originally a much larger wetland, but they have mainly have been drained for the benefit of agriculture and today less than 1% of the original undrained wetland habitat remains.
A further distinction is made between open and wooded fens, where open fens have canopy cover less than 10% and wooded fens have 10–25% canopy cover. If tall shrubs or trees dominate, the wetland is instead classified as a wooded bog or swamp forest, depending on other criteria.
Lakenheath Poor's Fen is a 5.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Lakenheath in Suffolk. [1] [2]This is mainly fen with diverse flora, and there are also areas of damp grassland, ditches and dykes.
The Cabin Creek Raised Bog is a 40-acre raised bog located in Randolph County, Indiana, near Farmland.Identified as one of the few post-glacial raised bogs remaining in the Eastern Deciduous Forest Province of the central United States, [1] it was designated as a National Natural Landmark in 1975.
Wisbech, known as the "Capital of the Fens" is the largest settlement in the district. Fenland is a local government district in Cambridgeshire, England.It was historically part of the Isle of Ely.
Fenland may mean: . Fenland, or the Fens, an area of low-lying land in eastern England . Fenland District, a local authority district in Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, forming part of the Fens