Fens

American  

[fenz] / fɛnz /

noun

1. Also called Fenland.  a marshy lowland region in eastern England, south of the Wash: partly drained and channeled since the 17th century.

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Fens British  

/ fɛnz /

plural noun

1. a flat low-lying area of E England, west and south of the Wash: consisted of marshes until reclaimed in the 17th to 19th centuries

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Example Sentences

A complex six-hour rescue mission took place to catch three little pigs apparently abandoned in the freezing Fens.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2026

And in the Fens, Mitschunas has tested nine rice varieties regularly grown in the United States, the Philippines, Macedonia and Japan -- four of them show promise, particularly one that originates from Colombia.

From Barron's • Oct. 31, 2025

"In a freezing winter, with winds cutting across the Fens, these roundhouses would have been pretty cosy," said CAU project archaeologist Dr Chris Wakefield.

From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2024

The Norfolk Hawker went extinct from the Cambridgeshire Fens in 1893 and, prior to 2013, its breeding sites were in the east of Norfolk and Suffolk.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2024

The road to the left, which I was not to take, led to the Fens, where the ogres lived.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine