Brewer's: Bedford Level

Land drained by the Earl of Bedford in 1649. This large tract of fenny land lay in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingdonshire, Northamptonshire, and Lincolnshire.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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