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Great Fen

Great Fen

The Great Fen, a 50-year project to create a huge wetland area. One of the largest restoration projects of its type in Europe, the landscape of the fens between Peterborough and Huntingdon is being transformed for the benefit both of wildlife and of people.

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Lakenheath RSPB reserve

Lakenheath RSPB reserve

An area of arable farmland into a large wetland, consisting mainly of reedbeds and grazing marshes. The new reedbeds have attracted hundreds of pairs of reed warblers and sedge warblers, as well as bearded tits and marsh harriers.

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Welney Wildfowl Centre

Welney Wildfowl Centre

Welney, in Norfolk, takes in 1,000 acres of the northernmost part of the Ouse Washes – Britain’s largest area of seasonally-flooded land and the setting for one of the most magical events in the UK’s nature calendar - mass winter gatherings of many thousands of wild ducks, geese and swans.

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Baston Fen

Baston Fen

Baston fen is a long tract of permanent pasture, which is flooded in winter and attracts large numbers of wildfowl

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Chippenham Fen

Chippenham Fen

Chippenham Fen covers 117 Ha and is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and Ramsar site

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Flag Fen

Flag Fen

Flag Fen, east of Peterborough, England, is a Bronze Age site developed about 3500 years ago, comprising over 60,000 timbers, arranged in five very long rows, creating a wooden causeway across the wet fenland.

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Wisbech & Fenland Museum

Wisbech & Fenland Museum

One of the oldest museums in the United Kingdom. The collections were initiated by the town's Literary and Museum Societies which were formed in 1781 and 1835 respectively.

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Thorney Abbey

Thorney Abbey

A Benedictine Abbey that was founded by St Aethelwold in 972. Large stone buildings were constructed, similar to those at the nearby abbeys at Peterborough, Crowland, Ely and Ramsey. The large Norman church, built from 1080, contained the relics of important saints such as St Botolph (brought from Boston) and these attracted visitors and their donations.

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Denny Abbey and Farmland Museum

Denny Abbey and Farmland Museum

Founded in 1159 as a Benedictine monastery, it then became a retirement home for elderly Knights Templars. After the Templars’ suppression for alleged heresy in 1308, it became a convent of Franciscan nuns before becoming a farm from 1539 and the dissolution of the monasteries, until the 1960s.

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Moulton Windmill

Moulton Windmill

Moulton Windmill is the tallest windmill in the country and stands at 100ft high to the top of the cap.​

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Crowland Abbey

Crowland Abbey

Crowland (Croyland) Abbey was a monastery of the Benedictine Order in Lincolnshire, sixteen miles from Stamford and thirteen from Peterborough.

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Ely Cathedral

Ely Cathedral

When the Cathedral was built Ely was only a small settlement, the town grew up around the Cathedral. The Benedictine monks only concern was to glorify God, and nothing less than a building on a majestic scale would do. The Cathedral is known locally as the 'ship of the fens' because of its prominent shape towering above the flat landscape.

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