The Great Fen – a waterland for the future
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Alan Bowley
An early edition of the Ordnance Survey map series shows an area between Peterborough and Huntingdon as 'the Great Fen'. Until the mid 19th centurry, this was a vast wilderness of fen and bog, but by the 1850s drainage began which was to allow the fen to be converted to arable farmland.