Draining The Fens Map – Numerous illustrative figures are contained, including maps, diagrams and photographs of the area, and a bibliography is also. First published in 1956, as the second edition of a 1940 original, this book forms the companion volume to medieval fenland. Thurlby fen was drained privately by the lords of thurlby, because the river glen formed a barrier against the waters of deeping fen. This partly imagined map of the central part of the fens in 1070 shows vast area of marsh south of the wash with eight or so meres, and a variety of ‘islands’.
Draining The Fens Map
These are followed by a bibliography, list of illustrations, maps, tables and figures, and finally by the index. Johns hopkins university press, 2017.
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- The draining of the fens.
- Detailed, yet highly readable, the draining of the fens will be of value to anyone with an interest in fenland history and historical geography in general.
- With the constitution and laws of the bedford level corporation.
- The draining of the fens.
- The maps are arranged in four groups:—a, maps of the whole fenland;