Road to Nowhere Traditional Cache
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Crowland is a small town in south Lincolnshire positioned between Peterborough and Spalding with two sites of particular historical interest. They are the unique fourteenth Century three-sided Trinity Bridge which, standing in the town centre, used to be the confluence of three streams; the other is its ruined mediaeval Abbey that was dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, St Bartholomew and St Guthlac in the eighth century.
Most of the region was waterlogged and indeed the monks had to take to rowing boats to visit the neighbouring Abbey at Thorney.
Though some marks of Roman hydraulics survive, and the medieval works should not be overlooked, the land started to be drained in earnest during the 1630s by the various adventurers who had contracts with King Charles 1st to do so. The leader of one of these syndicates was the Earl of Bedford who employed Cornelius Vermuyden as their engineer. Contrary to popular belief, Vermuyden was not involved with the draining of the "Great Fen" in Cambridgeshire and Norfolk the 1630s, but only became involved with the second phase of construction in the 1650s. The scheme was imposed despite huge opposition from locals who were losing their livelihoods in favour of already great landowners. Two cuts were made in the Cambridgeshire Fens to join the River Great Ouse to the sea at Kings Lynn - the Old Bedford River and the New Bedford River, also known as the Hundred Foot Drain.
Droves are networked irrigation channels that feed larger drains, eventually flowing into the sea.
This is a cache and dash – please bring your own writer.
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