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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. They often provide for overwintering wildfowl, and several include important nature reserves.
Examples of washlands include:
* The
Ouse Washes
Ouse Washes is a linear biological Site of Special Scientific Interest stretching from near St Ives in Cambridgeshire to Downham Market in Norfolk. It is also a Ramsar internationally important wetland site, a Special Protection Area for bird ...
of Cambridgeshire and Norfolk
* The
Nene Washes
Nene may refer to:
People
*Nene (name), list of people with this name
* Nene (aristocrat) (1546–1624), principal samurai wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi
* Nené (footballer, 1942-2016), nickname of Brazilian footballer Claudio Olinto de Carvalho
* ...
of Cambridgeshire
References
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Landforms
Flood control