Lost Fens
Lost Fens The loss of the great fenlands of eastern England is the greatest single removal of ecology in our history. For many, the Fenlands are the vast expansive flatlands of intensive farming, the…
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Lost Fens
The loss of the great fenlands of eastern England is the greatest single removal of ecology in our history. For many, the Fenlands are the vast expansive flatlands of intensive farming, the 'breadbaskets' of Britain. So thorough was the process that most visitors to the regions, or even people living there, have little idea of what has gone.
However, pause a while off main roads and consider place names and road names: Fenny Lane, The Withies, Commonside, Reed Holme, Fen Common, Turbary Lane, Wildmore, Adventurers' Fen, Wicken Fen, and more; they tell a story of a landscape now gone but once hugely important. Lost are the vast flocks of wetland birds that filled the evening skies in winter, the frozen wetlands and the fen skaters of the winter, and the abundant black terns or breeding wading birds of the summer months. The Fens bred revolution and civil war and paid the penalty. They
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