| I wonder if it could have been an outbreak of 'marsh fever' which, I believe, affected the areas around the Norfolk Fens? |
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| On the 40-minute journey across the bleak landscape of the Fens the coach was preceded by a vanguard of police motorcycles with blue lights flashing. |
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| Ely, on a small hill, dominates the rural countryside and its appearance in times of flood causes it to be known as The Ship of the Fens. |
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| Some areas of the Fens were once permanently flooded, creating small lakes or meres, while others were only flooded during periods of high water. |
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| However the Fens in Cambridgeshire are prone to flooding should a strong system affect the area. |
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| The Fens of eastern England, the Thai highlands, and the Pays de Bray in Normandy, are examples of this. |
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| East Anglia is the lowest area of England, having no high hills or mountains and hosting an area of the Fens, the lowest area of England. |
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| The Fens, also known as the Fenlands, are a coastal plain in eastern England. |
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| The Fens are particularly fertile, containing around half of the grade 1 agricultural land in England. |
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| Other significant settlements in the Fens include Boston, Cambridge, Spalding, and Wisbech. |
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| Indeed, as a result of drainage and the subsequent shrinkage of the peat fens, many parts of the Fens now lie below mean sea level. |
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| From the Fens northward along the modern coast, the drainage flowed into the northern North Sea basin. |
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| There is evidence of human settlement near the Fens from the Mesolithic on. |
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| As major landowners, the monasteries played a significant part in the early efforts at drainage of the Fens. |
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| The Fens Waterways Link is a scheme to restore navigation to some of the drainage works. |
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| South Atlantic English and the accents of England's Fens feature it as well. |
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| Meres similar to those of the English Fens but more numerous and extensive, used to exist in the Netherlands, particularly in Holland. |
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| In this way, the medieval and early modern Fens stood in contrast to the rest of southern England, which was primarily an arable agricultural region. |
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| The 1974 Look and Read series Cloud Burst was set and filmed in the Fens. |
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| Mercantilists believed that to maximize a nation's power, all land and resources had to be used to their utmost, and this era thus saw projects like the draining of The Fens. |
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| The landscape of Cambridgeshire and Norfolk has been heavily influenced by Dutch technology, from the use of red clay roof tiles to the draining of The Fens. |
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| The first series of Jim Kelly's crime novels, featuring journalist Philip Dryden, is largely set in the author's home town of Ely and in the Fens. |
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| Following this initial drainage, the Fens were still extremely susceptible to flooding, so windpumps were used to pump water away from affected areas. |
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| The Vale of York and The Fens host many of England's larger rivers. |
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| The Environment Agency is organising the Fens Waterways Link a major construction project to link rivers in the Fens and Anglian Systems for navigation. |
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| It stood until 1972 when it was relocated downtown, sparking protests from the neighbourhood, literary fans, and preservationists of Olmsted's vision for the Back Bay Fens. |
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| These formations are part of the Rhenish Massif, north of the High Fens. |
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| The major part of the draining of the Fens was effected in the late 18th and early 19th century, again involving fierce local rioting and sabotage of the works. |
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| This, together with the shrinkage on its initial drying and the removal of soil by the wind, has meant that much of the Fens lies below high tide level. |
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| The Thames also features prominently in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, as a communications artery for the waterborne Gyptian people of Oxford and the Fens. |
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| Some authors have featured the Fens repeatedly in their work. |
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| For example, the imposition of drainage schemes in The Fens negatively affected the livelihood of thousands of people after the King awarded a number of drainage contracts. |
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