River Great Ouse
The River Great Ouse weaves through the flat landscape of East Anglia, draining the Fens and providing a home for hundreds of species.
The river flows through rich agricultural land with few settlements along the way. The Great Ouse alone runs for 75 miles, but together with its tributaries, the River Cam, Lark, Little Ouse and Wissey, provides approximately 140 miles of navigable waterway.
The area here - the Fens - was once marshes and lakes but underwent massive workings to make it arable. Consequently the land around the Great Ouse now lies several feet below that of five centuries ago and is still shrinking, which in places has resulted in subsidence and an almost otherworldly landscape.
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