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Why did the Witham 'Valley' in Lincolnshire have so many monasteries in the middle ages?

21 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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In England, the fens are some of the highest quality agricultural land around. When they were originally drained in the 17th/18th(??) centuries, did they know how good the land was? If not, why were they drained?

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Trying to work out if this is a false memory or not. (A crashed airplane that I'm sure I can remember playing on in the early 90s in comings by)

9 upvotes • r/Lincolnshire

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This is more an RAF adjacent post than a direct one... But, RAF coningsby, was there a crashed plane outside the fence, across dogdyke road in the early 90s?

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Is there any truth to the story that Cadburys Roses (the variety pack) was named after Rose Brothers of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire?

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Is there any evidence that the Dunkirk transgressions, where the low lying areas around the North sea were flooded by tidal bulges, led to the Germanic migrations of ~300AD to 600AD?

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Why did the Witham 'Valley' in Lincolnshire have so many monasteries in the middle ages?	21	AskHistorians
In England, the fens are some of the highest quality agricultural land around. When they were originally drained in the 17th/18th(??) centuries, did they know how good the land was? If not, why were they drained?	15	AskHistorians
Trying to work out if this is a false memory or not. (A crashed airplane that I'm sure I can remember playing on in the early 90s in comings by)	9	Lincolnshire
This is more an RAF adjacent post than a direct one... But, RAF coningsby, was there a crashed plane outside the fence, across dogdyke road in the early 90s?	3	RoyalAirForce
Is there any truth to the story that Cadburys Roses (the variety pack) was named after Rose Brothers of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire?	2	AskHistorians
Is there any evidence that the Dunkirk transgressions, where the low lying areas around the North sea were flooded by tidal bulges, led to the Germanic migrations of ~300AD to 600AD?	1	AskHistorians