Proceeding eastward out of the Fenland and among the hills of Norfolk, the little river Wensum is found to have cut a broad, deep, and trench-like valley into the chalk and gravel plateau.
In the earlier days of Christianity the solitudes in thisFenland had peculiar attractions for the hermits who fled from the world to embrace an ascetic life.
Yet the fenland was not altogether a wilderness of reed-grown marsh and watery swamp.
In our own country the forest growth has been much interfered with by man, but the lower fenlandpeat gives a good example of the material formed by forest growth.
See the very excellent map given in "Fenland Past and Present," by S.
For, as it happened, the flat fenland in which I so nearly sunk was the fenland round the Island of Athelney, which is now an island in the fields and no longer in the waters.
For more than two centuries it flourished; then the Dane swooped down on the fenland abbey, and for nearly a hundred years it was desolate.
From the table-land about Naseby, much of which lies at an elevation of some six hundred feet above the sea, flow two of the rivers which ultimately pass through the fenland into the Wash.
The coloring of Fenland is not attuned to the brightness of Spring or Summer, but there is in the late Autumn a subtle quality that brings out its true charm.
They had watched the triumphant army pass, setting the dull fenland ablaze with color as it moved.
A comparison with other documentary evidence, however, leads to the identification of Holland with the forestum Merweda, or the bush-grown fenland lying between the Waal, the old Meuse and the Merwe.
Miller and Skertchley, The Fenland Past and Present, pp.
The Netherlands, with all its external features of man's war against the water, has its smaller counterpart in the 1,200 square miles of reclaimed soil about the head of the Wash, which constitute the Fenland of England.
Many early English ports on the coast of Kent and on the old solid rim of the Fenlandmarshes now lie miles inland from the Channel and the Wash.
So the Fenland of England was the center of resistance to the despotism of King John, who therefore fixed his headquarters for the suppression of the revolt at Lincoln and his military depôt at Lynn.
It was the Fenland that two hundred years later was the last stronghold of Saxon resistance to William of Normandy.
Hence to-day in the Fenland and in the district just to the south we find a darker, shorter people than in the country to the east or west.
This is the basket-making, for the which the fenland districts of Britain were famed even before the Romans reached the country.
Both are fairly inaccessible spots, but when we get to them they enable us to form a vivid idea of what the state of things must have been when the whole fenland was such as this.
Wisbech, and forming the estuary for the united outfall of all the Fenland waterways.
Chatteris was the first of the wonderful chain of Abbeys which swept round the Fenland from Ely into Lincolnshire.
The Isle, which contains the whole of the fenland forming this northern half of Cambridgeshire, is far older as a political entity than the southern part of the county.
It would not need much to set the tide of war moving westward again, now that our men knew the fenlandas well as ever the British learned the secrets of the paths.
Dependence had not been placed on him alone; other messengers had been despatched from the Fenland camp, in case he fell into the hands of the enemy, but he had outstripped his competitors.
In the fat Fenland we may yet live a life of our own, doing homage to no man, and defying fate.
The Fenland was perhaps already stirring, and the Abbot of Peterborough might have to act as a military commander.
Events were tending to that famous revolt in the Fenland which is perhaps the best remembered part of William's reign.
The men of the Fenland were zealous; the monks of Ely were zealous; helpers came in from other parts of England.
Footnote 125: The site of this manor house of Bourn is shown in an engraving in the "Fenland Past and Present.
A complete History of the Fenland worthy of the subject.
See the figure of this in "The Fenland Past and Present;" also a reference to it in the note on St. Godric, p.
The Crane was in a spit of open woodland, with before him and on either side deep fenland with paths known only to its dwellers.
For the Crane and his rabble, flushed with easy conquest, kept ill watch, and the tongues of forest running down to the fenland made a good hunting ground for a wary forester.
The Fenland is a buried basin behind a breached barrier.
The Fenland is only an example of a still further stage in this process.
From Dean to Salisbury is all straight road with moor, morass, and fenland on either side, broken only by the single hamlet of Aldersbury, just over the Wiltshire border.
A Fenland man who was on duty there doing nothing said, I could pass when the bridge was shut again.
Formerly a great inlet with vague borders of lagoons and marshes, the Fenland has been reclaimed partly by natural processes, partly by engineering works patiently continued for centuries.
The Fenland comprises a strip of Norfolk, a considerable part of Cambridgeshire, and the Holland district of Lincoln.
There are the tense moments typical of this author, and you will perhaps learn a lot about fenland natural history.
A number of the actors in this tale speak in a broad Lincolnshire Fenland dialect, which may make it a little hard for some readers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fenland" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
