Situation The village of Soham is located in the Cambridgeshire Fens, a flat, low-lying area of Eastern England, where the control of groundwater has always been a top priority. In the 17th Century the construction of a network of Lodes, including Soham Lode, was undertaken to cater for the drainage of the area for intensive food production because of the peat soil and provision of navigable routes to carry supplies to and from the local fen vi

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