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Grunty Fen, Cambridgeshire

Grunty Fen

Grunty Fen is a drained fen in Cambridgeshire, found four miles southwest of Ely. The Fen consists of the low-lying land at the centre of the Isle of Ely separating the villages of Wilburton and Stretham from Witchford and Wentworth.

Grunty Fen was uninhabitable even following the draining of the Fens in the seventeenth century, and could only be effectively drained after 1838. (Read more)