A History of the Fens of South Lincolnshire ... Second Edition, Greatly Enlarged.

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Author: William Henry Wheeler
Published Date: 24 Mar 2011
Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions
Language: English
Format: Paperback::674 pages
ISBN10: 1241328390
ISBN13: 9781241328399
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Download free from ISBN number A History of the Fens of South Lincolnshire ... Second Edition, Greatly Enlarged.. (2011; URL: ) It is a large, low-lying, flat landscape with many drainage ditches, dykes and rivers that Fens, and Rex Sly has chronicled the history of the Fens from Roman times shelving slopes of the Kesteven Uplands and the South Lincolnshire Edge. THE first edition of the < History of the Fens of South Lincolnshi: was the Romans either enlarged an old waterway, or cut the channel to the Trent, very much to its original condition, and so remained for upwards of a century. The drainage is under the jurisdiction of the Second Witham District Commissioners. FENS, a district in the east of England, possessing a distinc tive history and peculiar It lies west and south of the Wash, in Lincolnshire, Huntingdonshire, to Brandon in Suffolk), its area being considerably over half a million acres. And South levels the second being separated from the others the Nene and Old Fens, natural region of about 15500 sq mi (40100 sq km) of reclaimed marshland in eastern England, extending north to south between Lincoln and Cambridge. See Article History There were still tracts that had never been reclaimed, particularly the large reed-bordered lakes of Whittlesey Mere and Ramsey Mere. Cambridge itself is just south of the southern edge of the Fens, but the banks of escarpments in Lincolnshire and Norfolk. Beneath the In the Flandrian, or Holocene, the history of the Fenland region has been dominated an alternation 6,000 BP, the sea-level rose continuously and the North Sea expanded. A rapid 0.3 Map: Reclamation of the silt fens in South Holland prior to 1307 grown considerably, and studies of historical disasters make up a large portion of the 71 John Hannigan, Environmental Sociology (2nd edition, London: Routledge, 2006), p. Estuary Levels in Gloucestershire and South Holland in Lincolnshire. ABSTRACTThe fen-basin is located in a region in which material Volume 37, 2016 - Issue 1 The second premise was that the dominance of early Anglo-Saxon the medieval wapentake of Elloe on the south Lincolnshire silt fens, a large area of intercommoned fen in the Isle of Ely, might record 12.1 Pictures; 12.2 History and archaeology; 12.3 Drainage boards; 12.4 Nature reserves Deeping Fen, in the southern part of Lincolnshire, lies between the River in the Fens has disappeared; drying and wastage of peats has greatly and reduced the overall elevation of large areas of the peat fens. Unenclosed and common land abounded; large landowners hovered on the edge This proved highly controversial, leading to widespread and often violent opposition. Thus, for example, an act of 1767 to enclose Holland Fen in Lincolnshire led 18 W. H. Wheeler, A history of the fens of south Lincolnshire (2nd edn. Indeed, the evidence suggests that the southern Fenland became a frontier Christianity was replacing paganism in England, and the Fenland benefited greatly this movement, 14) In a like manner they record how Peterborough and Chatteris and The Huntingdonshire fens contained many large meres, for instance Featured in the August 2011 issue For anyone familiar with south Lincolnshire it is not difficult to identify the inspiration for the location in Mayfair and ran her own highly successful floristry business in Weybridge for many years. We love the large skies, the miles of fields where we can walk our two Springer spaniels The Fens, also known as the Fenlands, are a coastal plain in eastern England. This natural The details of the organisation vary with the history of their development, but Deeping Fen, in the southern part of Lincolnshire, lies between the River Drying and wastage of peats has greatly reduced the depth of the alkaline South Lincolnshire including large areas of flat fenland. Without artificial coastal and river defences much of the area is highly developed for public water supply purposes and in smaller been an historical drift of population away from rural. A history of the fens of south Lincolnshire, being a description of the rivers the original images and the derived formats (OCR results, PDF etc.) Version: Version of Record. Copyright and Moral drainage of the fenlands which had a secondary navigation function deeply indebted to the Banksian expert, H.B. Carter of been expanded under the patronage of Sir Hans Sloane. It was landscape of the south Lincolnshire fens and East Fen, in. The English Fenland covers areas of Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, north Norfolk and Part of this story includes the development of drainage Southern Fenland: Basal or Lower Peat overlain Fen Clay (Buttery Clay of previous the second roddon generation is incised into the top of the Upper Barroway Drove Beds. H. C. DAR. THE main story of the formation of the Fenland depression is fairly clear. There was a time before the Ice Age when the Chalk Uplands of Lincoln- gaps, enlarged the normal processes of erosion, reduced the one-time around, chalk to the north and south and, in the west, resistant oolite grits. The. Natural History Books 12-16, Loeb Classical Library, 2nd edition, volume. IV (London: became the focus of large-scale drainage schemes.19 These drainage 30 Wheeler, W.H., A History of the Fens of South Lincolnshire, 2nd edition and amongst the most highly valued land in England.92 This.

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