Fens

American

[fenz] / fɛnz /

noun

Also called Fenland. a marshy lowland region in eastern England, south of the Wash: partly drained and channeled since the 17th century.

Fens British

/ fɛnz /

plural noun

a flat low-lying area of E England, west and south of the Wash: consisted of marshes until reclaimed in the 17th to 19th centuries

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Their disappearance made national headlines and led to police appeals and tireless searches of the town and flat countryside of The Fens.

From BBC

A complex six-hour rescue mission took place to catch three little pigs apparently abandoned in the freezing Fens.

From BBC

She said in the late 1800s, lots of the agricultural workers in Cambridgeshire would skate on the fens as a hobby, a mode of travel or compete in it as a sport.

From BBC

The primary cause of the plants decline has been habitat loss through drainage and abandonment of the fens.

From BBC

Mitschunas is leading research with a project that tests new crops in the flat Fens of Cambridgeshire by rewetting peatlands.

From Barron's

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