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The Cambridgeshire Fens: 'A symbol of human skill and determination from more than 350 years ago' Fiona Reynolds takes a walk through the floodplains of the Cambridgeshire Fens, which still perform ...
Conspiracy theories might feel like a modern phenomenon, but one has its roots in the flat landscape of the Cambridgeshire Fens and dates back nearly 200 years. Camay Chapman-Cameron, who lives in ...
Footage of people skating on a frozen flooded field in Upware, Cambridgeshire. The Cambridgeshire Fens were the birthplace of British speed skating and require four nights of frost, with a ...
The Cambridgeshire Fens have not always been so hospitable. Until the 1600’s, this region was a low-lying swamp, covered with reeds and sedge where hardy locals grazed animals in summer and ...
A single fallen branch in a frozen lake in the Cambridgeshire Fens in eastern England. The region is home to a diverse array of wetlands, and the bogs here once inspired tales of ghostly spirits ...
Watch as people take to the ice to skate on a frozen flooded field in Upware, Cambridgeshire, on Thursday 18 January. The Cambridgeshire Fens were the birthplace of British speed skating and ...
Rangers at a nature reserve in the Cambridgeshire Fens have turned on taps across the site to create a winter wetland habitat for wildfowl on the low-lying land.. The taps at Wicken Fen allow ...
The Cambridgeshire Fens were the birthplace of British speed skating and require four nights of frost, with a temperature of -4C or colder and little or no thawing during the days in between, ...
Fens were once dominated by forests of yew trees, research suggests Analysis by the Cambridge Tree-Ring Unit indicated that some of the trees were 400 years old when they died.
Robin Hill retired at 58 and began collecting tractors, including a 1940s Fowler VF.