With a spot height of -1m. Water from the ditch is pumped up several metres into the river to drain the land. The area used to be a marsh before it was drained in the 18th century and the peat has since shrunk after being dried.
Uploaded to Geograph by Hugh Venables on 10 March 2012
Photo © Hugh Venables, 10 March 2012.
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