Forty Foot Drain
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The Forty Foot or Forty Foot Drain is a name given to several of the principal channels in the drainage schemes of the Fens of Eastern England, the name being qualified when there is a need to disting
Vermuyden's Drain
South Forty Foot Drain from Donington High Bridge
North Forty Foot Drain from Benton's Bridge.
South Forty-Foot Drain
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The South Forty-Foot Drain, also known as the Black Sluice Navigation, is the main channel for the land-drainage of the Black Sluice Level in the Lincolnshire Fens. It lies in eastern England between
Forty Foot Drain
…which is designed to carry water past the fens without being part of them) is known as the North Forty Foot Drain. That of the Black Sluice fens is the South Forty-Foot Drain. The latter flows, with some pump assistance, from Bourne North Fen, close to the River Glen, to the Haven at Boston. The North Forty Foot joins the…
The South Forty-Foot Drain at Pointon, between Boston and Guthrum Gowt. Here its origin as a drainage channel is very evident.
The Holland Fen pumping station, which pumps water from Clay Dike into the South Forty-Foot Drain
Black Sluice pumping station at Boston, where the Drain meets The Haven, was decommissioned in 2018.
The new lock at Black Sluice, allowing navigation from The Haven to the Drain