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New Tue 24 Jan 17 17:27 
 Feeling safe? - Cliff Pope
>> Just curious Pat. You always use "the Fen" in the singular to describe the are
>> you live. Is that a local usage as I have always used the plural i.e
>> the Fens to describe the area, or am I just wrong.
>>

I assumed that was because people identify with "their" fen, not the Fens in general?

In my childhood we kept a boat on the Cambridgeshire fens, and I was thrilled by stories of the particularly lawless men of Brandon Fen, who waylaid travellers and wrecked boats shooting the old Brandon staunch.
More recently I've discovered an ancestor who invested in Bottisham Fen and Stow Fen and allegedly made a fortune when the land was drained.
Another branch farmed in Whaplode Drove in the Lincolnshire fens when it was drained in the eighteenth century.
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