But the fens have not surrendered entirely, and Dee has not surrendered the effort to love fenland, its eels and sedges, wagtails and other fenlanders.
The branches in his young orchard have caught the wind that races across the open fenland, creating a strange vibrato.
The province, drained by the Zaan, Amstel, and Vecht rivers, is mainly low fenland, with dunes, and sea and river clays.
With the North Sea on its northern and eastern flanks, it was at one time almost cut off by fenland to the west (now drained) and forests (cleared long ago) to the south.
Arrested at St. Albans for treason against Stephen in 1143, he gave up his offices and castles in return for his freedom and went off to plunder the fenland around Ely, using Ramsey Abbey, which he fortified, as headquarters.
A palette of claret and fenland greens sets the tone for a simple and nostalgic sartorial switchover.
On the banks of the New Bedford River, surrounded by fenland, the inn was built in the 17th century to house the Scottish prisoners of war who were digging the ditches.
Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire One of the very few surviving, undrained, and largely intact fragments of the ancient fenland that once stretched from Cambridge to the Wash.
Although the fenland around Orford Castle seems harmless now, it was once home to top-secret military experiments.
It is apparently a fenland village – the main crop is sugar beet – but the solitary professional fixture that Dr Kossuth attends in his attempt to comprehend the principles of football takes place at Leicester City's Filbert Street ground.
Writer-director Guy Myhill makes a strong feature debut with this intelligent essay in Brit poetic social realism, set in the beautiful yet desolate fenland bayou of East Anglia.
