A broad section of the Car Dyke near Waterbeach in high summer
Specifications
Length
92 km (57 miles)
Status
part watered, part ancient monument
History
Date completed
Roman period
The Car Dyke was, and to a large extent still is, a long ditch which runs along the western edge of the Fens in eastern England for a distance of over 57 miles (92 km).[1] It is generally accepted as being of Roman age and, for many centuries, to have been taken as marking the western edge of the Fens. The name derives from carr, a fourteenth-century word for marsh or drained land.[2][3]
^Grigg, Erik (2015). Early Medieval Dykes (Thesis). University of Manchester. p. 59.
^Allan, Thomas (1830). The History of the County of Lincoln. Leeds: John Saunders. p. 6. OCLC 557541715.
^"car, carr". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/OED/8312280247. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
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