What struck my fancy

By TonyLuxton

Moorings

at Denver Sluice, Norfolk UK. The waterway is part of a system of natural and man-made channels and pumps to take water towards the sea or further inland to avoid flooding . Before we were 'rescued' by Cornelius Vermuyden in the 1600s these flatlands were under water. The good Dutchman designed the system and organised the labour to bring it into being and allow the area to be inhabited and the people to prosper.He was subsequently knighted.

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