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The Fens

This category lists websites for the area inland from The Wash, corresponding to marshland frequently flooded: in winter until their manual drainage at strategically positioned pumping stations.
This dates back to Roman hydraulics, and there are traces of medieval drainage works, but major reclamation: for agriculture was during the seventeenth century, with drainage maintained by windpumps.
The Fens drain into the Wash at the mouths of: The Great Ouse at King's Lynn, Norfolk,; The River Nene at Sutton Bridge, South Holland,; The River Welland at Fosdyke, and Haven at Boston, Lincolnshire.
The major open drains join the Great Ouse in Cambridgeshire;: the Old and New Bedford Rivers, also known as the Hundred Foot Drain, from Earith in Cambridgeshire.