Forty Foot Drain
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Drainage canal
- Description: group of drainage channels in Fenland, England
- Also known as: “Vemuden’s Drain”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Manea and Pymoor.
Manea
Village
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Manea is a village and civil parish in the District of Fenland, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2021 census was 2,810. Manea is situated 2½ miles northeast of Forty Foot Drain.
Pymoor
Village
Photo: Greg Chapman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pymoor is a village in Cambridgeshire in the vicinity of Ely and in the parish of Little Downham. There are approximately 390 residents according to the 2011 census, although that figure probably includes the nearby settlements of Oxlode and Hundred Foot Bank. Pymoor is situated 3 miles east of Forty Foot Drain.
Wardy Hill
Hamlet
Photo: Hugh Venables, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wardy Hill is a hamlet in Coveney civil parish, part of East Cambridgeshire, England. It is also the site of a former Iron Age Hill fort… Wardy Hill is situated 3 miles southeast of Forty Foot Drain.
Forty Foot Drain
- Categories: drainage, canal, and body of water
- Location: Manea, Fenland District, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
“Forty Foot Drain” goes by many names.
- Egyptian Arabic: “اربعين قدم درين”
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