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The Fens or Fenlands in eastern England is a area of former marshland of low lying land 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 ...
Fens can be found around the world, but the vast majority are located at the mid to high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. [2] They are dominated by sedges and mosses , particularly graminoids that may be rarely found elsewhere, such as the sedge species Carex exilis . [ 3 ]
The Back Bay Fens, often simply referred to as "the Fens," is a parkland and urban wild in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was established in 1879. [ 1 ] Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted to serve as a link in the Emerald Necklace park system, the Fens gives its name to the Fenway-Kenmore neighborhood.
Woodwalton Fen is a 209-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in the parish of Woodwalton, west of Ramsey in Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, England. [1] [3] It is a Ramsar wetland site of international importance, [4] a National Nature Reserve, [5] a Special Area of Conservation [6] [7] and a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I. [8] The site is managed by Natural ...
Denver Sluice, being at the confluence of five watercourses, was first built across the river in 1651 as a focus of the flood defence system that protects the low lying Fens, although it had to be rebuilt after bursting in 1713. Nearby Denver Windmill is a fully restored 19th century windmill which lies on the path of the Roman Fen Causeway.
All mires are initially fens when the peat starts to form, and may turn into bogs once the height of the peat layer reaches above the surrounding land. A quagmire is a floating (quaking) mire, bog, or any peatland being in a stage of hydrosere or hydrarch (hydroseral) succession, resulting in pond-filling yields underfoot (floating mats).
Two men who were arrested on suspicion of hare coursing and violent disorder after dozens of 4x4s caused havoc in fields and villages across the Cambridgeshire Fens have been bailed.
[3] [4] Park Drive, which is located on the other side of the Back Bay Fens, [3] allows for continuous travel in the opposite direction of the Fenway. It begins near where the Fenway ends at Boylston Street and enters the same intersection at Brookline Avenue where the Fenway begins.