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The Fens or Fenlands in eastern England is a area of former marshland of low lying land supporting a rich ecology and numerous species. Most of the fens were drained centuries ago, resulting in a flat, dry, low-lying agricultural region supported by a system of drainage channels and man-made rivers ( dykes and drains) and automated pumping ...
The earl and his 12 associates, known as adventurers (i.e. venture capitalists), contracted to drain the southern part of the fens within six years in return for 95,000 acres of the reclaimed land. 12,000 acres would go to the king and 80,000 would be allocated amongst the adventurers in proportion to their financial investment. The latter ...
The Middle Level is the central and largest section of the Great Level of The Fens, which was reclaimed by drainage during the mid-17th Century. The area is bounded on the northwest and east by the River Nene and Ouse washes , on the north by previously drained Marshland silts and to the south and west by low clay hills.
Bogs and fens can be thought of as two ecosystems on a gradient from poor to rich, with bogs at the poor end, extremely rich fens at the rich end, and poor fens in between. [28] In this context, "rich" and "poor" refer to the species richness, or how biodiverse a fen or bog is. [ 12 ]
According to legend, he roamed the Fens, which covers parts of the modern counties of Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire and Norfolk, and led popular opposition to William the Conqueror. Hereward is an Old English name, composed of the elements here, "army", and ward "guard" (cognate with the Old High German name Heriwart). [3]
The Drainage of the Fens. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-40298-0. Hills, Richard L (2008). The Drainage of the Fens. Landmark Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84306-323-0. Wheeler, William Henry; Batty, Leonard Charles (1896). A History of the Fens of South Lincolnshire. British Library Historical Print Collections. ISBN 978-1-241-32839-9
Elinor Whitney Field (1889–1980) was an American writer of children's books. [1] Her book Tod of the Fens was published in 1928 and was the recipient of a Newbery Honor.She and Bertha Mahony founded The Horn Book Magazine, the oldest U.S magazine dedicated to reviewing children's literature.
Tod of the Fens is a children's historical novel by Elinor Whitney Field. Set in Boston, England , in the early fifteenth century, it is a light-hearted adventure about Tod, a boy who lives with a band of men outside town, and Prince Hal , the heir to the throne, who disguises himself so he can move among the people incognito. [ 1 ]