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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 .
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.
Manea / ˈ m eɪ n iː / is a village and civil parish in the District of Fenland, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.. The population (including Welches Dam) of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 2,088.
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.
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
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.
It is rich in the living species adapted to fen life, many of which are rare or even endangered species because most of the fenlands of the United States have been altered or drained. [2] When surveyed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in 1973–1974, the Cabin Creek Raised Bog contained elevations that were elevated as ...
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.