Washland or washes are areas of land adjacent to rivers which are deliberately flooded at times when the rivers are high, to avoid flooding in residential or important agricultural areas.[1][2][3] They often provide for overwintering wildfowl, and several include important nature reserves.[4][5]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/The_Ouse_Washes_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1189086.jpg/220px-The_Ouse_Washes_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1189086.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Making_a_splash_on_Whittlesey_Wash_-_The_Nene_Washes.jpg/220px-Making_a_splash_on_Whittlesey_Wash_-_The_Nene_Washes.jpg)
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Examples of washlands include:
- The Ouse Washes of Cambridgeshire and Norfolk
- The Nene Washes of Cambridgeshire
References
edit- ^ "Collaborative Landforms Gallery". The Geograph Project. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
- ^ Wheeler, William Henry (1896). A History of the Fens of South Lincolnshire. 2nd Edition (facsimile edition, 1990 ed.). Stamford: Paul Watkins. ISBN 1-871615-19-4.
- ^ "The River Ouse project". The River Ouse project. University of Sussex.
Such areas are known as 'washlands'
- ^ "About Ouse Washes". RSPB. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
- ^ "Trent Valley Washlands". National Character Areas. Natural England. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
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