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 | | The principal Fens were Morris Fen, St. Giles' Fen, and Thorney Fen, north of the River Nen; Laddus Fen, Cranmore Fen, White Fen, Wimblington Fen, Block Fen, and Sutton Fen, south of the River Nen, and between it and the Bedford River or Cut. |
 | | South of the latter were Downham, Ashwell, Middle, Blunt, North, and Sedge Fens, all of which lay round the town of Ely, and adjacent to the rivers Ouse and Cam. |
 | | Though Cambridgeshire contained no meres like Norfolk or Huntingdon, still it was and is a network of water channels, that cover its surface from Cambridge and Newmarket to Peterborough and Wisbeach,-and, like other counties containing parts of the Great Bedford Level, it was frequented by hosts of wildfowl in days gone by. |
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