How To Use Fenland In A Sentence
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Across Europe, the biggest declines from 1990 to 2000 had been for bogs and fenland, heathland and coastal habitats.
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Growing much closer to the ground, both in dry, bushy places and in fenland, dewberries can sometimes be found now.
Times, Sunday Times
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The main activity of the shire was sheep-rearing on the wolds, cattle on the flatlands, and fishing: reclamation of fenland went on steadily.
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First and last, though, it is a book about landscape, and especially fenland.
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The fenlands of eastern England were originally marshland, but have been turned into rich farmland by efficient drainage.
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Some 40,000 people a year visit the fenland.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her setting in the flat fenlands remains dramatic, and before seventeenth century drainage works, it would have been far more so.
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I found this one on my fenland tour whilst out picking-off candidates for Classic Constructs, a new book for later on in the year.
Water Marks
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Fenland is probably still the place with the best chance of finding them.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fenland landscape may be flat and dreary; these stories are anything but.
This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You by Jon McGregor – review
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The fenlands of Norfolk are one of the flattest places on the planet and boats are the only way to travel.
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How do you keep yourself from getting lost in the fenlands, my lady?
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The whole trip was a very interesting extension of my experience of the English countryside and landscape, a refreshing change from this place where the fenland is so flat and unbroken.
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With the rise of the kingdom of Mercia further notable foundations were made in the midlands, especially in the Severn valley, while others emerged in the fenlands, such as Peterborough.
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Drifting curtains of fenland rain obscured everything from 20 yards so that, pedalling round the perimeter, the only indications of intense activity were waves of clatter from each dispersal as ground crews completed the arming of the Lancasters.
Short story competition
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In Cambridgeshire, the winds lifted the topsoil off the fenland.
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Soon enough, that road came to an end and I turned right onto a long, straight road heading out towards the open fenland, running parallel with my normal outward route.
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Next time you visit Fenland Aviation Museum, make a point of looking at the photograph albums pertaining to the Merlin's strip-down.
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As you push into East Anglia across the fenland, the earth is utterly flat and the horizon drawn with a ruler.
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Years ago, on hearing that my family would be moving from Cornwall to fenland Lincolnshire, a friend's father sympathised: I was stationed there during the war.
Letters: Blood ban
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In 1910, the Hon Charles Rothschild purchased 138 hectares of this fenland fragment and declared it a nature reserve.
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The 30 fiercely imagined stories in Jon McGregor's collection share an extraordinary topophilia: each bears as its subtitle the name of a fenland town or village, and even in tales that range widely across space and time we never lose touch with the flat Lincolnshire landscape.
This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You by Jon McGregor – review
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Growing much closer to the ground, both in dry, bushy places and in fenland, dewberries can sometimes be found now.
Times, Sunday Times
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Looking ahead, we can more than compete with, say, the fenlands of Lincolnshire but we will have to be innovative and use our strengths in mechanisation and the fact that we can work the land here all year round.
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As the cold Fenland mist condensed into drizzle, he mourned for the irretrievable.
FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
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Startlingly white in this green and yellow landscape, it is a refreshing curve amongst the fenland horizontals.
A Bridge for Sergeant Pike
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Between the 1960s and 1980s there was massive work to improve the land drainage in the Vale of Pickering and part of this was to change a beautiful, naturally formed, river into what is basically a fenland drain.
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It surely has the finest opening of any such picture: a nightmarish scene in a fenland graveyard.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the morning the water was back on, and I felt very grateful to some poor soul who had probably had to spend a freezing night in a fenland ditch somewhere, digging up pipes.
Darwin Sucks « Tales from the Reading Room
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They were turning the place back into ancient and ancestral fenland.
Times, Sunday Times
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The river Tern, which flows south from the Weald Moors – an ancient fenland that had been drained by the 18th century – met the Severn at Atcham and backed up across fields into parkland at Attingham.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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The fenlands of eastern England were originally marshland, but have been turned into rich farmland by efficient drainage.
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Traffic was halted and the residents of the normally busy Fenlands market town became almost invisible as the jury coach drove into town, surrounded by police outriders.
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Reed-fringed dykes in the very centre of the vast Halvergate marshes harbour a few in winter; Fenland osier carrs are equally attractive.
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Volunteers have a 4x4 vehicle, helmets and hi-vis jackets, even though the fenland county's high point is 128m (419ft).
The Sun
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However, the lively city centre is just a short walk — or even faster bicycle ride — away, across unspoilt fenland.
Times, Sunday Times