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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 Wisbech & Fenland Museum for many years was the only museum covering the area, the district council ceased funding the museum in 2016. [21] Fenland Poet Laureate
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 Fenland Survey was an intense archaeological survey of the Fenlands of England that took place between 1982 and 1989. During the survey, approximately 250,000 hectares (615,000 acres) of land was fieldwalked by four archaeologists in the interest of creating a comprehensive overview of the sites within the area.
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; Fenland Airfield, an airfield near Spalding, Lincolnshire, England, in the Fens; Fenland or fen, a wetland habitat, composed tall grasses and sedges growing in shallow ...
Fenland is a multi-site Special Area of Conservation in the Fens (a region in eastern England). [1] It was designated in 2005 to protect three wetland sites in Cambridgeshire with an area of 619 ha: [2] Chippenham Fen
Fenlands is a 1945 British short documentary film directed by Ken Annakin for the Ministry of Information's Pattern of Britain series. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It documents the Fenlands of East Anglia, and their change from swamplands to farmlands.
Avaste Fen, Estonia.Sedges dominate the landscape, woody shrubs and trees are sparse. Wicken Fen, England.Grasses in the foreground are typical of a fen. A fen is a type of peat-accumulating wetland fed by mineral-rich ground or surface water.