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- Middle_Level_Navigations maximumBoatBeam "3.3528".
- Middle_Level_Navigations maximumBoatLength "24.384".
- Middle_Level_Navigations abstract "The Middle Level Navigations are a network of waterways in England, primarily used for land drainage, which lie in The Fens between the Rivers Nene and Great Ouse, and between the cities of Peterborough and Cambridge. Most of the area through which they run is at or below sea level, and attempts to protect it from inundation have been carried out since 1480. The Middle Level was given its name by the Dutch Engineer Cornelius Vermuyden in 1642, who subsequently constructed several drainage channels to make the area suitable for agriculture. Water levels were always managed to allow navigation, and Commissioners were established in 1754 to maintain the waterways and collect tolls from commercial traffic.A new main drain to Wiggenhall St Germans was completed in 1848, which provided better drainage because the outfall was lower than that at Salters Lode. Whittlesey Mere, the last remaining lake, was drained soon afterwards, using one of the first applications of John Appold's centrifugal pump, following its appearance at the Great Exhibition in 1851. Traffic on the network began to diminish after the opening of the railway through March in 1846, and fell dramatically in the early twentieth century. The last regular commercial traffic was the tanker barge Shellfen, which delivered fuel oil to pumping stations until 1971.As a result of the drainage, land levels continued to fall, and in 1934 the gravity outfall at Wiggenhall St Germans was replaced by a pumping station, with three diesel engines driving 8.5-foot (2.6 m) diameter pumps. Its capacity was increased in 1951, and again in 1969/70, when two of the engines were replaced by electric motors. Following over 50 hours of continuous running at maximum capacity in 1998, a new pumping station was commissioned. Work on it began in 2006, and when it was completed in 2010, it was the second largest pumping station in Europe. Much of the drainage of the Middle Levels relies on pumping, and the Commissioners manage over 100 pumping stations throughout the area.Interest in restoration of the Middle Levels for leisure traffic began in 1949, and the first significant work by volunteers occurred in 1972, when they worked on the restoration of Well Creek, which finally reopened in 1975. Since then, locks have been lengthened, to allow access by modern narrowboats, as they were built for Fen Lighters, which were only 49 feet (15 m) long. The southern reaches became more accessible in 2006, when a low Bailey bridge was raised by soldiers from the 39 Engineer Regiment. The system is managed by Commissioners, and they are the fourth largest navigation authority in Great Britain.".
- Middle_Level_Navigations endPoint Downham_West.
- Middle_Level_Navigations hasJunctionWith River_Nene.
- Middle_Level_Navigations maximumBoatBeam "3.3528".
- Middle_Level_Navigations maximumBoatLength "24.384".
- Middle_Level_Navigations startPoint Peterborough.
- Middle_Level_Navigations thumbnail Mullicourt_Aqueduct_Cambridgeshire.jpg?width=300.
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- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Act_of_Parliament.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Bailey_bridge.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Bedford.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Benwick.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Cambridge.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Category:Canals_in_England.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Category:Drainage_canals.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Category:Land_drainage_in_the_United_Kingdom.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Celia_Fiennes.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Centrifugal_pump.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Chatteris.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Cofferdam.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Cornelius_Vermuyden.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Crossley.
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- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Earith.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Earl_of_Bedford.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink England.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Fens_Waterways_Link.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink George_Walpole,_3rd_Earl_of_Orford.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Great_Exhibition.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Great_Ouse.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Horseway.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Hundred_Years_War.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Inland_Waterways_Association.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink John_Appold.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink John_Hawkshaw.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink John_Morton_(archbishop).
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink John_Morton_(cardinal).
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink John_Popham_(Lord_Chief_Justice).
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink John_Rennie_the_Younger.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Kings_Lynn.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Lighter_(barge).
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Lord_Chief_Justice_of_England_and_Wales.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink March,_Cambridgeshire.
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- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Puddling_(engineering).
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- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Royal_Engineers.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Scoop_wheel.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink St_Ives,_Cambridgeshire.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Stanground.
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- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Sugar_beet.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink The_Fens.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink The_Great_Exhibition.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Upwell.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink W.H.Dorman_&_Co.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Welches_Dam.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Whittlesey_Mere.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Wiggenhall_St_Germans.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink William_Foster_&_Co..
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Wisbech.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink Wisbech_Canal.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink File:Geograph_265769.jpg.
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLink File:March-Cambridgeshire-7.jpg.
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- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLinkText "Middle Level Commissioners".
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLinkText "Middle Level Drain".
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLinkText "Middle Level Fenland drain".
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLinkText "Middle Level Main Drain".
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLinkText "Middle Level Navigations".
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLinkText "Middle Level main Drain".
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLinkText "Middle Levels".
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLinkText "Navigation".
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLinkText "Popham's Eau".
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLinkText "Well Creek".
- Middle_Level_Navigations wikiPageWikiLinkText "navigation link".
- Middle_Level_Navigations beam "11".
- Middle_Level_Navigations beamIn "0".
- Middle_Level_Navigations caption "The Mullicourt aqueduct where the Well Creek crosses the main drain".
- Middle_Level_Navigations company "Bedford Level Commissioners".
- Middle_Level_Navigations end "Salters Lode".
- Middle_Level_Navigations hasPhotoCollection Middle_Level_Navigations.
- Middle_Level_Navigations join "River Nene, River Great Ouse".
- Middle_Level_Navigations len "80".
- Middle_Level_Navigations lenIn "0".
- Middle_Level_Navigations locks "6".