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    Deeping Fen is a low-lying area in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England, which covers approximately 47 square miles (120 km2). It is bounded...
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    Lincolnshire, which were under their own local jurisdictions. Bourne Fen and Deeping Fen lie in the southern most parts of Lincolnshire, between the Rivers...
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    constructed between Stamford and Market Deeping, and two locks were built on the river section below Market Deeping. The canal section was known as the Stamford...
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    the west of Deeping St James was known as Littleworth, and hence the road as Littleworth Drove. But after successful drainage of Deeping Fen in the 18th...
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  • Welland and Deepings Internal Drainage Board. 5km 3miles Deeping Gate West Deeping Tongue End Stowgate Market Deeping Hop Pole Frognall Deeping St Nicholas...
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    and Baston Fen which is on the margin of the much bigger Deeping Fen. Until the nineteenth century, the heart of Deeping Fen was a common fen on which all...
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    Hole pumping station, which plays an important part in the drainage of Deeping Fen. Beyond Guthram Gowt, the river flows in a north-easterly direction,...
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  • Croxby, Croxton, Culverthorpe, Cumberworth, Cuxwold Dalby, Dalderby, Deeping Fen, Deeping St James, Dembleby, Denton, Derrythorpe, Derthorpe, Dexthorpe, Digby...
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    discharge water into Vernatt's Drain from land in Deeping Fen to the South and West. Water from Pinchbeck South Fen to the North is also lifted into Vernatt's...
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    Market Deeping, which is in South Kesteven district, Deeping St Nicholas is in South Holland. Deeping St Nicholas is also a South Holland civil parish which...
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  • was doing at Deeping Fen. A series of published exchanges took place in early 1736. Grundy took the view that making channels narrow and deep was important...
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    particularly in its use as a proper name.[citation needed] The Counter Drain in Deeping Fen is a good example, where the land between it and the bank of the River...
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  • in 1739, after his father became engineer for the drainage works at Deeping Fen. He joined the Gentlemen's Society in December 1739, and started work...
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    Gilbert Heathcote's tunnel (category Fens of England)
    under gravity, from Bourne South Fen, Thurlby Fen and Northorpe Fen to the Counter Drain and thence to Deeping Fen. A tunnel was required under the River...
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    previous engine. This worked until 1942, when it broke down. The fen became part of the Deeping Fen Drainage District in 1943, and until a new pumping station...
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    Stamford Canal did not start until upstream of Market Deeping, Briggin's lock (or the Deeping High lock) was an important part of the Welland Navigation...
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  • information on Englebert's work is scarce, he was an innovator in fen draining and worked in Deeping Fen with Captain Thomas Lovell for which he was greatly praised...
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    villages and hamlets, collectively called the Deepings, which include Deeping Gate, West Deeping, Deeping St James and Langtoft. The Grade II listed limestone...
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  • appointed to various commissions for land improvement in Lincolnshire (Deeping Fen and the River Glen) while abroad. He was subsequently recalled and appointed...
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    ended in Lincoln in 1968. In 1964 vertical pumps were supplied to the Deeping fen IDB for the pumping station at Pode Hole, where they remain in use. The...
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    posthumously in 1828 Blackwall Dock Ruislip Reservoir, Grand Union Canal Deeping Fen Drainage and pumping engines at Pode Hole (incomplete at his death) Caen...
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  • election. In his later days took an interest in reclamation operations at Deeping Fen in Lincolnshire. Banks died shortly after leaving parliament on 27 September...
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  • Harborough and Stamford and a branch out as far as Taunton. His survey of Deeping Fen resulted in an Act allowing the provision of steam engines for drainage...
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    c. 24)) Draining Deeping Fen Act 1664 (repealed) 16 & 17 Cha. 2. c. 11 2 March 1665 An Act for drayning of the Fenn called Deeping Fenn and other Fenns...
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  • A fen (Chinese: 分; pinyin: fēn) (Cantonese: sin [Chinese: 仙]), is a unit of currency used in Greater China, including the People's Republic of China, the...
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    Lands, and the Owners and Proprietors of the Free Lands, in Deeping Fens, and other Fens, in the County of Lincoln, therein mentioned, to raise a competent...
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    drainage of lands called Crowland washes and fodder lots, Cowbit wash and Deeping fen wash" (PDF). 10&11 Vict, 1847. Retrieved 22 October 2013. "Chapter 2...
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  • 1824 the company supplied a 60hp beam engine to the commissioners of Deeping Fen as one of two erected at Pode Hole. The other engine was supplied by...
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    passes through the housing estates of Baston, as it has in Market Deeping and Deeping St James. As it crosses the River Welland on the southern edge of...
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    aged 43, while on tour in Liverpool. John Alfred Calthrop was born at Deeping Fen (also given as nearby Gosberton), Lincolnshire, on 14 February 1845,...
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