Author: William Henry Wheeler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108066410
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 665
Book Description
This expanded 1896 second edition gives a detailed history of the reclamation and drainage of the Fens of South Lincolnshire.
The Fens
Author: Francis Pryor
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786692236
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. 'Francis Pryor brings the magic of the Fens to life in a deeply personal and utterly enthralling way' TONY ROBINSON. 'Pryor feels the land rather than simply knowing it' GUARDIAN. Inland from the Wash, on England's eastern cost, crisscrossed by substantial rivers and punctuated by soaring church spires, are the low-lying, marshy and mysterious Fens. Formed by marine and freshwater flooding, and historically wealthy owing to the fertility of their soils, the Fens of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire are one of the most distinctive, neglected and extraordinary regions of England. Francis Pryor has the most intimate of connections with this landscape. For some forty years he has dug its soils as a working archaeologist – making ground-breaking discoveries about the nature of prehistoric settlement in the area – and raising sheep in the flower-growing country between Spalding and Wisbech. In The Fens, he counterpoints the history of the Fenland landscape and its transformation – from Bronze age field systems to Iron Age hillforts; from the rise of prosperous towns such as King's Lynn, Ely and Cambridge to the ambitious drainage projects that created the Old and New Bedford Rivers – with the story of his own discovery of it as an archaeologist. Affectionate, richly informative and deftly executed, The Fens weaves together strands of archaeology, history and personal experience into a satisfying narrative portrait of a complex and threatened landscape.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786692236
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. 'Francis Pryor brings the magic of the Fens to life in a deeply personal and utterly enthralling way' TONY ROBINSON. 'Pryor feels the land rather than simply knowing it' GUARDIAN. Inland from the Wash, on England's eastern cost, crisscrossed by substantial rivers and punctuated by soaring church spires, are the low-lying, marshy and mysterious Fens. Formed by marine and freshwater flooding, and historically wealthy owing to the fertility of their soils, the Fens of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire are one of the most distinctive, neglected and extraordinary regions of England. Francis Pryor has the most intimate of connections with this landscape. For some forty years he has dug its soils as a working archaeologist – making ground-breaking discoveries about the nature of prehistoric settlement in the area – and raising sheep in the flower-growing country between Spalding and Wisbech. In The Fens, he counterpoints the history of the Fenland landscape and its transformation – from Bronze age field systems to Iron Age hillforts; from the rise of prosperous towns such as King's Lynn, Ely and Cambridge to the ambitious drainage projects that created the Old and New Bedford Rivers – with the story of his own discovery of it as an archaeologist. Affectionate, richly informative and deftly executed, The Fens weaves together strands of archaeology, history and personal experience into a satisfying narrative portrait of a complex and threatened landscape.
A History of the Fens of South Lincolnshire
Author: William Henry Wheeler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108066410
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 665
Book Description
This expanded 1896 second edition gives a detailed history of the reclamation and drainage of the Fens of South Lincolnshire.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108066410
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 665
Book Description
This expanded 1896 second edition gives a detailed history of the reclamation and drainage of the Fens of South Lincolnshire.
The History of the Drainage of the Great Level of the Fens, Called Bedford Level
Author: Esq. Samuel Wells
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bedford Level (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bedford Level (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
The Fens and Floods of Mid-lincolnshire. With a Description of the River Witham, in its Neglected State Before 1762,and its Improvements Up to 1825
Author: James Sandby Padley
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385465397
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385465397
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
The History of Wisbech and the Fens. [With Plates.]
Author: Neil WALKER (and CRADDOCK (Thomas))
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
History of the Drainage of the Great Level of the Fens Called Bedford Level
Author: Samuel A. Wells
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
The History of the Drainage of the Great Level of the Fens, Called Bedford Level; with the Constitution and Laws of the Bedford Level Corporation
Author: Samuel Wells (Registrar to the Bedford Level Corporation.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
The history of the drainage of the great level of the Fens, called Bedford level; with the constitution and laws of the Bedford level corporation. 2 vols. [and map].
Author: Samuel Wells (barrister.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Village Life in the Fens, Or, Old Age Pensions and "back to the Land"
Author: Frederic John Gardiner
Publisher:
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Category : Old age pensions
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Old age pensions
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Anti-Projector: Or, the History of the Fen Project
Author: Anti-projector
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description