The River Great Ouse looking south towards Queen Adelaide, Cambridgeshire
This section of the Great Ouse was straightened in the 1820s/30s as part of an ongoing series of adjustments to the overall Fenland drainage scheme which had begun properly back in the 1630s under Francis, fourth earl of Bedford and continued after the Civil War under William the fifth earl of Bedford with the Dutch Engineer, Sir Cornelius Vermuyden, then directing the project. Despite their endeavours, flooding had continued to be a major problem in Fenland until the early 19th century and the advent of steam power to drive drainage pumps.
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