"Shippea Hill" redirects here. For the railway station, see Shippea Hill railway station.
Human settlement in England
Burnt Fen
The Engine Drain where it meets the River Lark at Lark Engine House
Burnt Fen
Location within Cambridgeshire
OS grid reference
TL605875
Shire county
Cambridgeshire
Region
East
Country
England
Sovereign state
United Kingdom
Post town
BURY ST. EDMUNDS
Postcode district
IP28
List of places
UK
England
Cambridgeshire
52°28′N0°22′E / 52.46°N 0.36°E / 52.46; 0.36
Burnt Fen is an area of low-lying land crossed by the A1101 road between Littleport in Cambridgeshire and Mildenhall in Suffolk, England. It is surrounded on three sides by rivers, and consists of prime agricultural land, with sparse settlement. It is dependent on pumped drainage to prevent it from flooding.
Between 1759 and 1962 the area was managed by the Commissioners of the Burnt Fen First Drainage District, who were then replaced by the Burnt Fen Internal Drainage Board, when the area of responsibility was expanded. Funding for the drainage works is collected by a system of rates, paid by those whose property would be threatened by flooding without the works.
BurntFen is an area of low-lying land crossed by the A1101 road between Littleport in Cambridgeshire and Mildenhall in Suffolk, England. It is surrounded...
(originally Mildenhall Road and later BurntFen) is on the Breckland Line in the east of England, serving the BurntFen area of Cambridgeshire and Suffolk...
the Bedford Level South section of the River Great Ouse, close to BurntFen and Mare Fen. There are two primary schools, Millfield Primary and Littleport...
Beckett, John (1983). Urgent Hour: Drainage of the BurntFen District in the South Level of the Fens, 1760-1981. Ely Local History Publication Board....
Fen Court is a short pedestrian passageway in the City of London, England, linking Fenchurch Street to Fenchurch Avenue. At the middle of the passageway...
is 51 miles 8 chains (82.2 km) in length, from where it branches off the Fen line north of Ely to where it joins the Great Eastern Main Line south of...
constructed a new cut near Ely to bypass a long meander near Padnall Fen and BurntFen, but although the works cost £70,000, they were too late to return...
since been through two name changes; one in 1885 which saw it named as 'BurntFen', and again in 1904 where it was renamed to its current name, Shippea...
capable of holding 8 tons of gault (Kimmeridge) clay. Teams employed by the BurntFen Drainage District were provided with the boats, but had to supply a horse...
area North Norfolk Coast AONB The Broads National Park Broads Authority BurntFen Alpacas Wroxham Barns Norfolk Wildlife Trust Alderfen Broad Norfolk Archaeological...
Waterworks Act 1879 c. xi Weymouth and Melcombe Regis Bridge Act 1879 c. xii BurntFen District Act 1879 c. xiii Chester Cemetery (Extension) Act 1879 c. xiv...
within a given region. IDBs are geographically concentrated in the Broads, Fens in East Anglia and Lincolnshire, Somerset Levels and Yorkshire. In comparison...
southern part of BurntFen since 1842. Many of the surrounding ditches once flowed into the river by gravity, but the draining of the fens has resulted in...
The following morning the horn was found to have been burnt up. Underwood, Peter (1984), "Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire", This Haunted Isle, Harrap, ISBN 9780245542329...
further sum of money for the improvement and security of the said level. BurntFen (Northampton) Drainage Act 1797 37 Geo. 3. c. 89 19 June 1797 An act to...
The High Fens (German: Hohes Venn; French: Hautes Fagnes; Dutch: Hoge Venen), which were declared a nature reserve in 1957, are an upland area, a plateau...
Neotinea ustulata (syn. Orchis ustulata), the burnt orchid or burnt-tip orchid, is a European terrestrial orchid native to mountains in central and southern...
although it is a poor founding material. Older houses, in the area of BurntFen near Littleport, Cambridgeshire, were built on peat whilst more modern...
fire. Tang dynasty poet Zhang Jie (Chinese: 章碣) wrote a poem (titled 焚书坑, Fen Shu Keng, "Pits for Book-burning") about the policy of destruction by both...
visit and study. Captain Arthur Fenner's original homestead, which was known as "Fenner Castle" (circa 1652) was burnt to the ground in King Philip's War...
German border (Aachen), from the Dutch border (Maastricht) and from the "High Fens" nature reserve (Ardennes). The town is also the capital of the Euroregion...
095. Cottenham is one of a number of villages that make up the historical Fen Edge region in between Cambridge and Ely, which were originally settlements...
of Tacitus. London: Macmillan, 1868, OCLC 776555615 "Wat is carnaval?" | Fen Vlaanderen Archived 22 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Fenvlaanderen.be...
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