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• Wood Walton
  ...e|Ramsey]] to the north-east. The village stands at the edge of Woodwalton Fen, an area of special scientific interest.<ref name=vch/> ...Woodwalton Fen - geograph.org.uk - 128235.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Wodwalton Fen towards Darlow's Farm]]
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• Peterborough
  ...Nene enters the Fens. Bronze Age remains have been found nearby at [[Flag Fen]] to the east in [[Cambridgeshire]]. Outside the city to the west was the ...known as the Fen Causeway also crosses the site.<ref>Pryor, Francis ''Flag Fen: Life and Death of a Prehistoric Landscape'' Tempus Publishing, Stroud, 200
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• United Kingdom
  ...everal large lakes. These fenlands have now been drained, leaving [[Wicken Fen]] as the last example of ancient wetland. ...aching from the northernmost to the [[Kintyre]] peninsula of [[Argyll]] a little to the south of Kintyre is [[Rathlin]] Island belonging to [[County Antrim]
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• Bermondsey
  ...-ey" represents Old English ''eg'', for "island", "piece of firm land in a fen", or simply a "place by a stream or river". Thus Bermondsey need not have b ...a dock, named St Saviour's Dock after their abbey. But Bermondsey then was little more than a high street ribbon (the modern Bermondsey Street), leading from
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• Boston
  ...elihoods were at risk. (One of the sources of livelihood obtained from the fen was fowling, supplying ducks and geese for meat and in addition the process
  19 KB (3,202 words) - 10:35, 16 February 2019
• Somerset Levels
  ...flooded all year or by seasonal floodwaters, its villages built on little fen islands and joined by causeways to each other or to the hills. The Levels
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• Shoreditch
  ...ch''' is town in [[Middlesex]] deep within the metropolitan conurbation, a little north of the [[City of London]]. Shoreditch is entirely contiguous with its ...o an ancient drain or watercourse in what was a boggy area adjacent to the fen which gave a name to [[Finsbury]] to the west.<ref>Mander, D (1996) ''More
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• Great Britain
  |L=[[Holme Fen]], [[Huntingdonshire]]:<br>9 feet below sea-level ...ossing.<ref>Lacey, Robert. ''Great Tales from English History''. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2004. ISBN 0-316-10910-X.</ref> Great Britain became an
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• British Isles
  ...shire]] standing at 4,409 feet. Their lowest point above water is [[Holme Fen]] in [[Huntingdonshire]] at 9 feet below sea level. [[Lough Neagh]] in the ...ger island as ''Great Britain'' (''Megale Britannia'') and to Ireland as ''Little Britain'' (''Mikra Brettania'') in his work, ''Almagest'' (147–148 AD). I
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• Downham Market
  Downham Market railway station serves the town, is on the Fen Line from London to King's Lynn.
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• Catcott Burtle
  ...the parishes of [[Catcott]] and [[Burtle]]. It is found at the meeting of fen roads deep in the [[Somerset Levels]], and the landscape all around it is o
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• Malvern Hills
  ...Malvern Hills panorama.jpg|left|thumb|800px|View of the Malvern Hills with Little Malvern Priory in the midst]] ...e water permeates through the rock which, because of its hardness, leaves little or no mineral traces in the water, while at the same time the very fine cra
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• Holderness
  ...Fields are generally large and bounded by drainage ditches. There is very little woodland in the area and this leads to a landscape that is essentially rura ...tidal and saline. In the lower reaches it is enclosed by flood banks with little associated natural habitat remaining. The majority of the formerly extensiv
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• Bluntisham
  [[Earith]], with which Bluntisham shares much of its history, lies a little downstream. ...so perhaps than in former days: ice skating is the local sport and at Bury Fen ice hockey is reputed to have originated, under its local name of "Bandy".
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• Conington, Huntingdonshire
  ...as the Roman [[Ermine Street]], and then the Great North Road, but lies a little off and has escaped being swamped by all that comes with a major highway. In 1639 it was in Conington that the great work of draining the fen began. The fourth Earl of Bedford set to work; the work was to lead to the
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• Earith
  ...of repair. A bridge and causeway (known as 'Earith Causey') over Haddenham Fen were looked after by hermits in the 14th and 15th centuries, and indulgence ...o a marina, and during winter months ice skating is popular at nearby Bury Fen. Both activities are depicted in the village sign.
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• Holme, Huntingdonshire
  ...o the west. [[Conington, Huntingdonshire|Conington]] is along the lanes a little to the south and while the A1(M) passes through the farmland not fat west o ...as the lowest point in Great Britain, nine feet below sea level. The Home Fen posts mark the lowest point.
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• Holme Fen
  [[File:Holme Fen.jpg|top|right|thumb|300px|Silver Birch Woodland at Holme Fen]] '''Holme Fen''' is an area of drained fenland on [[Huntingdonshire]]. It lies to the we
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• Soke of Peterborough
  ...is less clearly defined physically, running through the fields and farms a little way west of [[Wansford]] and [[Wittering]]. *Borough Fen (ex. par.)
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• Fenton, Huntingdonshire
  ...et's name is apparently just what it suggest: a town (or farmstead) on the fen.
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