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• Bedfordshire
  ...00 feet, on the [[Dunstable Downs]]. The rest of the shire is part of the broad drainage basin of the [[River Great Ouse]] and its tributaries. The River [[Great Ouse]] links Bedfordshire to the [[Great Fen|Fenland]] waterways. As of 2004 there are plans by the Bedford and Milton K
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• Lincolnshire
  The broad extent of the county consists of a number of different areas, including the ...ugh]]. Much of the land here is at or below sea level and was once a vast fen of wetland, lakes and channels, now drained the produce fertile farmland.
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• Norfolk
  ...rce to the sea, the two rivers rising within yards of each other in Little Fen and flowing in opposite directions. To the west lie Cambridgeshire and [[L The broads themselves are the broad, flat lakes which punctuate the landscape as rivers spread out into reed-fi
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• Somerset
  ...nhabited only on the low hills dotting its surface, forming islands in the fen. It is proposed by some that Somerset, land of the Summer dwellers, was nam ...endips is the [[Chew Valley]] and to the south, on the clay substrate, are broad valleys which support dairy farming and drain into the Somerset Levels.
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• Suffolk
  ...rce to the sea, the two rivers rising within yards of each other in Little Fen and flowing in opposite directions. Suffolk's border with [[Essex]] is mar ...s pretty villages, featuring in many a painting. The villages abound with broad greens, thatched cottages brightly painted, and that particular East Anglia
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• County Kildare
  ...nd - Plains of South Kildare.jpg|thumb|right|277px|Looking east across the broad plains of South Kildare to the distant Wicklow Hills.]] ...an area of 220 hectares and is recognised as an internationally important fen ecosystem with unique and endangered plant communities, and declared a Nati
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• Silicon Fen
  '''Silicon Fen''' (sometimes '''the Cambridge Cluster''') is the name given to the region It is called "Silicon Fen" by analogy with Silicon Valley in California and [[Silicon Glen]] in the C
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• Ramsey, Huntingdonshire
  ...at Whyte, a very broad street reaching from the High Street out toward the fen edge and which has become the principal street. ...ey Heights. It is along the B1040, the road out from Great Whyte into the fen.
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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
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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. [Space for broad British history outline:
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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 ...ng several counties in the east of England. Much of the land in the Great Fen and in the [[Somerset Levels]] in [[Somerset]] is at or below sea level.
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• Catcott Burtle
  ...the landscape all around it is of that extremity of character: flat green, broad acres. The hamlet is at the meeting of Catcott Broad Drove and Westhay Broad Drove, just east of Burtle, which it has somewhat surpassed as a village.
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• Malvern Hills
  |[[Broad Down, Malvern|Broad Down]] || align="right"|958 The Malvern Hills are the backdrop for Penda's Fen, a 1974 British television play written by David Rudkin and directed by Ala
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• Holderness
  '''Holderness''' is an area of the [[East Riding of Yorkshire]], a broad, low-lying finger of land between the [[North Sea]] and the [[Humber]]. It ...ibutaries and a number of coastal streams. The valley of the River Hull is broad and shallow and in its lower reaches the river is contained within flood ba
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• Great Ouse
  ...Kempston]], which is the current head of navigation. The Ouse is already a broad and impressive river in [[Bedford]], and prone to flooding the town in rece The Great Ouse and its meadows lie broad at the edge of St Neots. It is said that in Huntingdonshire the Great Ouse
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• Little Ouse
  The Little Ouse rises in the [[Little Fen]] east of [[Thelnetham]] and north of [[Redgrave, Suffolk]], within feet of ...e, a point crossed today by the B1113 ({{map|TM039790}}). The marsh has a broad, fenny bottom, and is only 85 ft above sea level. It is believed that the
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• River Nene
  From Northampton, the river flows along a broad valley, formed by the enormous amount of water released by the melting ice ...nges to the Nene Washes in The Fens and their vast horizons. Beyond [[Flag Fen]], the river flows through [[Wisbech]], then [[Sutton Bridge]] in [[Lincoln
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• The Great Fen
  [[File:Great Fen - geograph.org.uk - 491613.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The Fen by Prickwillow, Cambridgeshire]] [[File:West Fen - geograph.org.uk - 256677.jpg|right|thumb|200px|West Fen, Lincolnshire]]
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• Canvey Island
  ...le smaller inlets were filled in. Excess water would have collected in the broad ditch and then been discharged into the river by the means of seven sluices
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• Kennet and Avon Canal
  ...7}}</ref> Excavations of the old stop lock showed that it was originally a broad 14-foot lock that at some point was narrowed to 7 feet by moving the lock w Jones's Mill is a 29-acre area of fen vegetation, scrub, and woodland lying along the headwaters of the [[River A
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