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The Croston Drainage Scheme: co-operation and conflict in the development of the south-west Lancashire Landscape

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The history, technology and economics of fenland drainage are briefly reviewed and a comparison made between the Lancashire mosslands and the Fens and Somerset Levels. In the eighteenth century Croston Finney was a low-lying, remote area subject to annual flooding on which improvement had been made on a small area by enclosure and piecemeal attempts at drainage by various landowners but complexity of land-holding and the differing township interests required a Drainage Act (1800) before real progress could be made. The scheme was finally completed in 1836 after prolonged efforts. The Croston Drainage Scheme provides a clear example of development by drainage, followed by reclamation and then settlement and the inter-relationships of landscape, economic and social history.

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  • John Virgoe, 2011. "The Croston Drainage Scheme: co-operation and conflict in the development of the south-west Lancashire Landscape," Landscape History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(1), pages 59-77, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rlshxx:v:32:y:2011:i:1:p:59-77
    DOI: 10.1080/01433768.2011.10594652
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    1. A. J. Gritt, 2014. "'Co-operation and conflict in the development of the south-west Lancashire Landscape': a comment," Landscape History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 35(1), pages 77-80, May.

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