| On the 40-minute journey across the bleak landscape of the Fens the coach was preceded by a vanguard of police motorcycles with blue lights flashing. |
| Fortune declared against him, and he retreated, like some Hereward, to the Fens. |
| Some areas of the Fens were once permanently flooded, creating small lakes or meres, while others were only flooded during periods of high water. |
| However the Fens in Cambridgeshire are prone to flooding should a strong system affect the area. |
| From the Fens northward along the modern coast, the drainage flowed into the northern North Sea basin. |
| The Fens are particularly fertile, containing around half of the grade 1 agricultural land in England. |
