| Norfolk's feral birds haunt lakes and stretches of river in wooded parkland, the Broads and Breckland meres. |
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| Waters to head for include canals, rivers, gravel pits, lakes, ponds, meres and reservoirs. |
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| Little grebes breed on ponds, small lakes and meres, flooded gravel pits and beet factory settling ponds. |
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| It teems with cliffs, meres, glades and bogs. |
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| Ponds means relatively shallow and usually small bodies of still water or water with a low refreshment rate, most frequently artificially formed, but can also apply to natural pools, tarns, meres or small lakes. |
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| A typical feature of these meres is that they are alongside a river rather than having the river flowing through them. |
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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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| This was formed following the retreat of ice age glaciers which left the area dotted with kettle holes, locally referred to as meres. |
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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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| With poor sandy soils overlying chalk or clay, landscape features include heathland vegetation, small lakes, or meres, whose water level is variable, and plantations of trees. |
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| Atop the simple structure of the Cheshire Plain, however, lies a highly fragmented pattern of glacial clays, sands, and gravels, meandering rivers, and scattered distinctive small lakes, or meres. |
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| As an island surrounded by marshes and meres, the fishing of eels was important as both a food and an income for the abbot and his nearby tenants. |
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| Yet the relative obscurity of the meres and mosses means they have not attracted the amount of conservation funding seen in other areas of comparable importance. |
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| All the others such as Windermere, Coniston Water, Ullswater and Buttermere are meres, tarns and waters, with mere being the least common and water being the most common. |
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| If the compliment seems fulsome, it must be remembered that Meres has higher praise and more of it for Shakespeare's fellow Warwickshireman, Michael Drayton. |
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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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| Its secretary and treasurer was John Meres, clerk to the Society of Apothecaries in London. |
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| An impressive 10 x 32 foot narrative of graffiti history painted by acclaimed aerosol artist, MERES, will be on view for the first time. |
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| In 1598, Francis Meres published his Palladis Tamia, a survey of English literature from Chaucer to its present day, within which twelve of Shakespeare's plays are named. |
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