From Market Deeping past Spalding its course across the drained Fens has been embanked. |
The Maigue is tidal as far as Adare, and is embanked along most of its distance. |
You can access the port at Carentan via a marked out and embanked canal leading from the Baie des Veys then through a lock. |
This is another small river, embanked for all of its length, with a depth of up to 5 feet. |
It is navigable up to Rendsburg and is embanked through the marshes along its lower course. |
Small embanked fields were laid out for cereal growing, and were separated from areas devoted to livestock pasturage. |