National Trust - Wicken Fen Nature Reserve
Ancient undrained fenland of reed beds, sedge and lodes, with a working windpump and boardwalk trails.
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This guide to Wicken Fen, the National Trust reserve outside Cambridge, follows Alan Bloom, a nurseryman who bought the waterlogged farm next door just before the Second World War. It turns on wartime food drives, land girls from Manchester, hand-dug dykes and the ancient bog oaks buried in the peat. Best heard within sight of the little windpump over the reeds.
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