Hatfield Chase
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hatfield-chase-288-17574315
title:
Hatfield Chase
text:
Hatfield Chase is a low-lying area in South Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire, England, which was often flooded. It was a royal hunting ground until Charles I appointed the Dutch engineer Cornelius Vermuyden to drain it in 1626. The work involved the re-routing of the Rivers Don, Idle, and Torne, and the construction of drainage channels. It was not wholly successful, but changed the whole nature of a wide swathe of land including the Isle of Axholme, and caused legal disputes for the rest of the
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wiki
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description:
Human settlement in England
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield_Chase
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date modified:
2023-10-17T12:08:02Z
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