Tag Archives: Fens

The Tyranny of the Horizon by Laurence Mitchell

Posted on April 23, 2018 by East of Elveden

Originally posted on BURNING HOUSE PRESS:
“A frontier region… the resort of brigands and bandits” – Sir Clifford Darby, from The Medieval Fenland Two summers ago I walked coast to coast across England and Wales, from Great Yarmouth in Norfolk…

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Marshland

Posted on July 5, 2016 by East of Elveden

The far west of Norfolk between Terrington St John and Walsoken on the Cambridgeshire border is often referred to as Fen country but technically it is part of the Norfolk Marshland. John Seymour in his Companion Guide to East Anglia (1970) … Continue reading →

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Whittlesea Straw Bear

Posted on January 12, 2015 by East of Elveden

If you venture to Whittlesea, at the edge of the Fens near Peterborough, during the second weekend in January you cannot help but notice that strange straw animals and oddly attired people have taken over the streets of this small market … Continue reading →

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