Meanings of great fen in English

The great fen to-day was full, far and wide, of little smouldering fires.

They were now nearer the coast, and a great fen eagle flew screaming over their heads.

The northern quadrant was a great fen of colour and cloud, that spread ribs of feathery pink, fleece-frilled, from the horizon to the zenith.

It will be a hard thing for Danes to cross the great fens to come hither.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Patrick Barkham walking in the Great Fen The trail is a grassroots project involving local heritage and wildlife groups.

The enthusiasts paid to attend building sessions at Hinchingbrooke Country Park, near Huntingdon, making native fauna and flora for the Great Fen model.

There were the like in the great fens of East Anglia and Mercia when Guthlac the Holy went there, and he thought them devils.

Glinton, a small village of about three hundred inhabitants, stands some four or five miles east of Helpston, bordering on the Peterborough Great Fen.

"They have a beauty of their own, those great fens," he said, "a beauty of the sea, of boundless expanse and freedom.