The Ouse Washes Website
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Contents in tabular form with info detail
| Subject A - Z | Notes |
| Adventurers (Company of) | financiers who funded drainage construction 1630-52 |
| Adventurers Lands | |
| Anchor Inn, Sutton Gault | see Pubs and Inns |
| Anglian Water Authority | |
| A-Z site contents | |
| Barges & barge traffic | see Navigation |
| Barrier banks | on Features page |
| Barrier bank works 2017-2023 | Middle Level Bank, West side of Ouse Washes |
| Boating (pleasure) | see Navigation |
| Bedford | |
| Bedford Level Corporation | managers of Bedford Level 1663-1920 |
| Bedford Ouse | see Features/Rivers |
| Bedford River | see Counterdrain/Old Bedford |
| Bedford, Earl of | |
| Black Sluice | see Counterdrain/Old Bedford |
| Blog | Peter's story of his rearch project that led to this website |
| Bridges | list of Past and present on Features page; and for more details see Crossings |
| Business | |
| Canals | see rivers |
| Cattle | |
| Cattle pens | on Features Page |
| Causeways | list of Past and present on Features page; and for more details see Crossings |
| CD/OBR | see Counterdrain/Old Bedford |
| Chapels | |
| Chateau Pisces | see Colony Lake |
| Chronology | of Hundred Foot or Ouse Washes |
| Churches | |
| Cock Fen Pumping Station | |
| Colony, The | see Manea Colony |
| Colony | |
| Colony Lake | |
| Commercial river freight | |
| Commerce | |
| Company of Adventurers | see Adventurers |
| Conservation | |
| Counterdrain | see Counterdrain/Old Bedford |
| Counterdrain/Old Bedford River | Counterdrain, Old Bedford (north), Cranbrook Drain |
| Cradge bank | see Features |
| Cranbrook Drain | see Counterdrain/Old Bedford |
| Creation | |
| Crossings | |
| Dams | on Features page |
| Delph River or River Delph | |
| Denver | |
| Denver complex | |
| Denver Sluice | |
| Drainage authorities | |
| Drains | see rivers |
| Earith | |
| Earith Bridge | |
| Earith Sluice | |
| Earith Sluice Bridge | |
| Environment Agency | |
| Farming | |
| Features | |
| Fenland Ark | the "floating church" of St.Withburga. Sunday services on a barge on Old Bedford, Manea to Welney |
| Ferries | on Features Page |
| Flat Earth Experiments | on the Old Bedford River, Welney |
| Floating Church | see Fenland Ark |
| Flooding | |
| Flood Management | see Water Level Management |
| Flood Alerts | |
| Flood Warnings | |
| Floodwater storage | on Features page |
| Fortrey's Hall | |
| Fortrey's Hall PS | |
| Forty Foot Lock | see Welches Dam Lock |
| Forty Foot River | also known as Vermuyden's Drain |
| Freight | |
| Funding | |
| Gaugeboards | |
| Gault | |
| Gaulters, gault barges | |
| Glen House | |
| Glen House PS | |
| Great Dyke+Sluice | at Mepal |
| Great Ouse River | |
| Great Ouse River Authority | main-river managers 1965-1973 |
| Great Ouse River Board | main-river managers 1952-1965 |
| Haddenham | |
| Haddenham | |
| Haddenham Level | |
| Hermitage Lock | Bedford Ouse to Old West River |
| History of Washes | See Overview |
| Home Page of this website | |
| Houses | on Features Page |
| Hovertrain | |
| Hundred Foot Drain/River | |
| Hundred Foot PS | |
| Hundred Foot Washes | |
| Hundred Foot Washes IDB | |
| Inns and Pubs | on Features page |
| Lake Farm PS | |
| Lamb & Flag, Welney | see Pubs and Inns |
| Littleport | |
| Littleport & Downham IDB | |
| Locks | on Features page |
| Main Rivers | |
| Main Rivers management | |
| Management of Washes | see Main Rivers management |
| Manea | |
| Manea Colony | Utopian commune 1838-1840 |
| Manea & Welney IDB | |
| Mepal | |
| Mepal Lock | see new page above "Great Dyke" |
| Mepal PS | |
| Middle Level | |
| Middle Level Barrier Bank | see Features |
| Middle Level Commissioners | |
| Middle Level Transfer | Counterdrain to Forty Foot River |
| National Rivers Association | main-river managers 1989-1996 |
| Nature reserves | |
| Navigation | |
| NBR | see New Bedord River |
| New Bedford River | see Hundred Foot Drain |
| News | events on/around or affecting the Washes |
| Nordelp | |
| North Level | |
| North Level IDB | |
| Norway House | |
| OBR | see Old Bedford River |
| Old Bedford Br, Sutton Gault | |
| Old Bedford Br, Welney | |
| Old Bedford River | see Counterdrain/Old Bedford |
| Old Bedford Sluice | |
| Old Bedford/Delph River | |
| Old Croft River | old course of Ouse from Littleport to Upwell |
| Old West River | |
| Ordnance Datum | |
| Ouse | |
| Ouse River Board | main-river managers 1920-1930 |
| Ouse Washes | on Features page |
| Over | |
| Over & Willingham IDB | |
| Overview of the Ouse Washes | creation funding management chronology much more |
| Owen's Sluice | see Great Dyke |
| Ownership | |
| Oxlode | |
| Oxlode PS | |
| Pisces | |
| Presentations | |
| Pumping stns | |
| Pubs and Inns | on Features page |
| Purles Bridge PS | |
| Pymore | |
| Railway | on-line slideshow Ely-March line over Washes |
| Recreation | |
| Religion | |
| River freight | |
| River Great Ouse | |
| River Gt Ouse Catchment Bd | main-river managers 1930-1952 |
| Rivers and Drains | |
| River banks | |
| RSPB | |
| St. Withburga | see Fenland Ark |
| Salters Lode | |
| Salters Lode Lock | Welle Creek to Great Ouse/Tidal River |
| Schools | |
| Shellfen | BP barge tanker delivered oil to pumping stations |
| Sixteen Foot River | |
| Slackers | on Features page also covers irrigation inlets |
| Slideshows | |
| Sluices | on Features page |
| Smallholdings | |
| South Level | |
| South Level Commissioners | |
| South Level Barrier bank | see Features |
| South Level Datum | see Ordnance Datum |
| Suspension Bridge | |
| Suspension Bridge | |
| Sutton Gault | |
| System | |
| Talks | |
| The system | |
| Telemetry | |
| Tidal Influence | |
| Tidal River | |
| Tide Tables | |
| Thirty Foot River | |
| Three Pickerells, Mepal | |
| Three Tuns, Welney | |
| Tourism | |
| Trade | |
| Twenty Foot River | |
| St. Withburga | |
| Salters Lode | |
| Shrinkage of soil | |
| Sutton & Mepal IDB | |
| Upwell IDB | |
| Vandervell's Lake | see Colony Lake |
| Vermuyden | |
| Vermuyden's Drain | see Forty Foot River |
| Viaducts | see Bridges |
| Visitor centres | nature and wildfowl reserves on Washes |
| Visitor Comments | about this website |
| Wartime instalations | on Features Page |
| Wash, The | |
| Washes, washlands | |
| Water Level Management | |
| Water level targets | |
| Water level gauge boards | |
| Water level telemetry | |
| Weirs | on Features page |
| Welches Dam | small community near the Forty Foot lock |
| Welches Dam Lock | Forty Foot River to Counterdrain/OBR |
| Welches Dam PS | pumps Counterdrain into Delph |
| Welches Dam Reserve | Bird reserve run by RSPB |
| Well Creek | |
| Well Creek weir/spill-way | from CD/OBR to Well Creek at Salters Lode |
| Welle Stream | |
| Welmore Lake Sluice | where Ouse Washes empties into NBR |
| Welney | |
| Welney Causeway | |
| Welney Hotel | |
| Welney Gate | single vertical sluice on CD/OBR |
| Welney Wash | |
| Welney Wash road | |
| WW2 | |
| WWT | |
Acknowledgements
Text and photos except where noted © Peter Cox, 2010-26If you think there are any errors or ommissions on this page or would like to comment, please e-mail Peter and your response will be added.
Website Contents, A-Z
Created May 2011, last edited: 31/03/26, 16:03
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