Gateway to the Lincolnshire Fens
The lost wilderness - Wetlands for people and wildlife and people for Wetlands - wilderness lost The Heron Introduction History & landscape Baston Fen Nature Reserve Nature Fen Baston his leaflet tells the story of a small, but important corner of a once extensive wetland years old blister to the surface of wet peaty fields; history may be discovered at each bridge which covered over 2,000 square kilometres of the East Midlands and East Anglia. and highway junction; and large gravel workings, new industrial landscapes, open and heal, change over time THalf of this area lay in the southeast Lincolnshire Fens and was said to have contained returning some of the lost wetlands to the old fen. F we were to look at a cross-section of the fenland soils, we would find at the bottom a huge areas of mire and reedswamp, great shallow lakes, meres and black pools, many Water, its control, use, quality and availability is central to the past and future of these low layer of ancient Jurassic clay covered by glacial tills and gravels, which in-turn, are overlaid wooded islands and tortuous rivers and streams. To some, this land was a sanctuary, with its lying lands: Some have lost all in their struggle with the fenland waters, washed away by floods by a lens of Lower Peat, formed between 7,500 and 5,000 years ago. Above this, a blue- abundant fisheries, wildfowl and lush summer pastures; to others it was a fearful wilderness I and storm tides; others paid dearly for their fight for freedom and the common lands.
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