Little Thetford
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Little Thetford is a small village in the civil parish of Thetford, 3 miles south of Ely in Cambridgeshire, England, about 76 miles by road from London. The village is built on a boulder clay island s
Little Thetford looking north-east. Ely is north—top left. The A10 road at Thetford corner is west and the River Great Ouse is east. The south-west block of housing is where the Iron Age settlement and Romano-British tile kiln were found.
Chain ferry at Little Thetford c. 1905. Harrimere windmill is seen on the Barway side of the River Great Ouse.
19th-century Baptist chapel
Little Thetford Main Street, 1906. Three Horse Shoes public house on left. Thatched building, c. 13th century, on right which burned down on 6 November 1930.
The Fens
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The Fens or Fenlands in eastern England are a naturally marshy region supporting a rich ecology and numerous species. Most of the fens were drained centuries ago, resulting in a flat, dry, low-lying a
Little Thetford
…south of Ely in Cambridgeshire, England, about 76 miles (122 km) by road from London. The village is built on a boulder clay island surrounded by flat fenland countryside, typical of settlements in this part of the East of England. During the Mesolithic era, the fenland basin was mostly dry and forested…
Wicken Fen
England population density and low elevation coastal zones. The Fens are particularly vulnerable to sea level rise.
A windpump at Wicken Fen
The former by-laws of Deeping Fen at Pode Hole near Spalding