2014

TL5374 : Flat fenland farmland

taken 9 years ago, near to Barway, Cambridgeshire, England

Flat fenland farmland
Flat fenland farmland
The Fens, also known as the Fenland, is a naturally marshy region in eastern England. Most of the fens were drained several centuries ago, resulting in a flat, damp, low-lying agricultural region.
A fen is the local name for an individual area of marshland or former marshland and also designates the type of marsh typical of the area, which has neutral or alkaline water chemistry and relatively large quantities of dissolved minerals, but few other plant nutrients.
Fenland primarily lies around the coast of the Wash; it reaches into four counties: Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and a small area of Suffolk, as well as the historic county of Huntingdonshire. In whole it occupies an area of nearly 1,500 sq miles.
Most of the Fenland lies within a few metres of sea level. As with similar areas in the Netherlands, much of the Fenland originally consisted of fresh- or salt-water wetlands, which have been artificially drained and continue to be protected from floods by drainage banks and pumps.

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TL5374, 89 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
N Chadwick   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Thursday, 30 October, 2014   (more nearby)
Submitted
Friday, 9 January, 2015
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TL 5367 7404 [10m precision]
WGS84: 52:20.5746N 0:15.2623E
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TL 5360 7403
View Direction
EAST (about 90 degrees)
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