As you push into East Anglia across the fenland, the earth is utterly flat and the horizon drawn with a ruler. |
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First and last, though, it is a book about landscape, and especially fenland. |
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The branches in his young orchard have caught the wind that races across the open fenland, creating a strange vibrato. |
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Soon enough, that road came to an end and I turned right onto a long, straight road heading out towards the open fenland, running parallel with my normal outward route. |
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A palette of claret and fenland greens sets the tone for a simple and nostalgic sartorial switchover. |
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The province, drained by the Zaan, Amstel, and Vecht rivers, is mainly low fenland, with dunes, and sea and river clays. |
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In Cambridgeshire, the winds lifted the topsoil off the fenland. |
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But the fens have not surrendered entirely, and Dee has not surrendered the effort to love fenland, its eels and sedges, wagtails and other fenlanders. |
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Arrested at St. Albans for treason against Stephen in 1143, he gave up his offices and castles in return for his freedom and went off to plunder the fenland around Ely, using Ramsey Abbey, which he fortified, as headquarters. |
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On the banks of the New Bedford River, surrounded by fenland, the inn was built in the 17th century to house the Scottish prisoners of war who were digging the ditches. |
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Spa's appeal as a tourist destination is based on its wide range of cultural, sporting and leisure attractions, as well as its privileged setting, with woods, windswept fenland, pure air and many mineral and iron springs. |
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Morcar was taken and imprisoned, but Hereward is said to have escaped with some of his followers into the wild fenland and to have continued his resistance. |
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With the support of this drainage system, the Fenland has become a major arable agricultural region in Britain for grains and vegetables. |
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The rest of the Fenland was dedicated to pastoral farming, fishing, fowling and the harvesting of reeds or sedge for thatch. |
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Drainage in the Fenland consists of both river drainage and internal drainage of the land between the rivers. |
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The following is a list of known meres of the eastern English Fenland with their grid references. |
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After the departure of the Danes the Fenland rebels remained at large, protected by the marshes, and early in 1071 there was a final outbreak of rebel activity in the area. |
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