New Bedford River
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The New Bedford River, also known as the Hundred Foot Drain because of the distance between the tops of the two embankments on either side of the river, is a navigable man-made cut-off or by-pass chan
New Bedford River at Oxlode
The outlet of Welmore Lake Sluice into the New Bedford River
Aerial view of the New (middle diagonal grey line) and Old (right diagonal grey line) Bedford Rivers crossed by the Ely-March railway (bottom dark line)
Oxlode pumping station on the banks of the New Bedford River
Ouse Washes
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Ouse Washes is a linear 2,513.6-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest stretching from near St Ives in Cambridgeshire to Downham Market in Norfolk, England. It is also a Ramsar interna
New Bedford River
…sluices are opened, and water flows along the Old Bedford River, which progressively floods the 8.9 square miles (23 km2) of washlands which comprise the Ouse Washes. At Welney, these washes provide an ideal habitat for wildfowl and other birds, and the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust has established a nature reserve…
In flood
Peter Scott in 1954
An RSPB hide overlooking the Old Bedford River
Welney Wetland Centre: the bridge accesses the hides