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Forty Foot Drain

Fenland, United Kingdom

Forty Foot Drain
Forty Foot Drain. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

The Forty Foot or Forty Foot Drain is a name given to several of the principal channels in the drainage schemes of the Fens of Eastern England, the name being qualified when there is a need to distinguish between them. They are Vermuyden's Drain, South Forty Foot and North Forty Foot.

Canal data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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