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Deeping Fen, the Glossary

Deeping Fen is a low-lying area in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England, which covers approximately.^[1]

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Fens of England
Land drainage in the United Kingdom
Landforms of Lincolnshire
The Deepings

Adventurers (land drainage)

Adventurers were groups of English engineers and wealthy landowners, who funded large-scale land drainage projects in the seventeenth century, in return for rights to some of the land reclaimed. Deeping Fen and Adventurers (land drainage) are land drainage in the United Kingdom.

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Beam engine

A beam engine is a type of steam engine where a pivoted overhead beam is used to apply the force from a vertical piston to a vertical connecting rod.

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Centrifugal pump

Centrifugal pumps are used to transport fluids by the conversion of rotational kinetic energy to the hydrodynamic energy of the fluid flow.

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Deeping Fen

Deeping Fen is a low-lying area in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England, which covers approximately. Deeping Fen and Deeping Fen are Fens of England, land drainage in the United Kingdom, Landforms of Lincolnshire and the Deepings.

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Deeping Gate

Deeping Gate is a village and civil parish, lying on the River Welland in Cambridgeshire. Deeping Fen and Deeping Gate are the Deepings.

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Deeping St James

Deeping St James is a large village in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. Deeping Fen and Deeping St James are the Deepings.

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Deeping St Nicholas

Deeping St Nicholas is a village in Lincolnshire, England, on the A1175 road between The Deepings and Spalding. Deeping Fen and Deeping St Nicholas are the Deepings.

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Domesday Book

Domesday Book (the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of King William the Conqueror.

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Duke of Buccleuch

Duke of Buccleuch, formerly also spelt Duke of Buccleugh, is a title in the Peerage of Scotland created twice on 20 April 1663, first for James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, and second suo jure for his wife Anne Scott, 4th Countess of Buccleuch.

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Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603.

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Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford

Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford PC (1587 – 9 May 1641) was an English nobleman and politician.

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Gwynnes Limited

Gwynnes Limited was a City of London England engineering business, iron founders and pump makers founded in 1849 to capitalise on the centrifugal pump inventedThe first practical centrifugal pump called the Massachusetts pump was built in the United States in 1818.

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Internal drainage board

An internal drainage board (IDB) is a type of operating authority which is established in areas of special drainage need in England and Wales with permissive powers to undertake work to secure clean water drainage and water level management within drainage districts. Deeping Fen and internal drainage board are land drainage in the United Kingdom.

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John Grundy Jr.

John Grundy Jr. (1719–1783) was an English civil engineer, who worked on a number of drainage schemes, canal projects and dock works.

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John Grundy Sr.

John Grundy, Sr. (c.1696 – 1748) was a teacher of mathematics, a land surveyor, and later a civil engineer.

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John Rennie the Elder

John Rennie (7 June 1761 – 4 October 1821) was a Scottish civil engineer who designed many bridges, canals, docks and warehouses, and a pioneer in the use of structural cast-iron.

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Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire, abbreviated Lincs, is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England.

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List of acts of the Parliament of England from 1664

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Market Deeping

Market Deeping is a market town and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, on the north bank of the River Welland and the A15 road. Deeping Fen and market Deeping are the Deepings.

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Moulton, Lincolnshire

Moulton is a village in the civil parish of The Moultons, in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England.

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Non-metropolitan district

Non-metropolitan districts, or colloquially "shire districts", are a type of local government district in England.

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Old English

Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Pinchbeck Engine

The Pinchbeck Engine is a drainage engine, a rotative beam engine built in 1833 to drain Pinchbeck Marsh, to the north of Spalding, Lincolnshire, in England.

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Pode Hole

Pode Hole is a village in South Holland, Lincolnshire, England. Deeping Fen and Pode Hole are land drainage in the United Kingdom.

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Pumping station

Pumping stations, also called pumphouses, are public utility buildings containing pumps and equipment for pumping fluids from one place to another.

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River Glen, Lincolnshire

The River Glen is a river in Lincolnshire, England with a short stretch passing through Rutland near Essendine.

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River Welland

The River Welland is a lowland river in the east of England, some long.

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Robert Montagu, 3rd Earl of Manchester

Robert Montagu, 3rd Earl of Manchester JP (baptised 25 April 1634 – 14 March 1683) was an English courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1671 when he inherited the peerage as Earl of Manchester.

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Scoop wheel

Rim driven Scoop wheel of the Stretham Old Engine, Cambridgeshire A scoop wheel or scoopwheel is a pump, usually used for land drainage.

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South Holland and The Deepings (UK Parliament constituency)

South Holland and The Deepings is a constituency in Lincolnshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 1997 creation by John Hayes, a Conservative.

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South Holland District

South Holland is a local government district of Lincolnshire, England.

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Spalding, Lincolnshire

Spalding is a market town on the River Welland in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England.

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The Deepings

The Deepings are a series of settlements close to the River Welland near the borders of southern Lincolnshire and north western Cambridgeshire in eastern England.

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William Jessop

William Jessop (23 January 1745 – 18 November 1814) was an English civil engineer, best known for his work on canals, harbours and early railways in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deeping_Fen

Also known as Deeping Fen Drainage Act 1737, Deeping Fen Drainage Act 1856, Draining Deeping Fen Act 1664.

Deeping Fen, the Glossary

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See also

Fens of England

Land drainage in the United Kingdom

Landforms of Lincolnshire

The Deepings

References