Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies have been awarded a £28,000 grant to help catalogue thousands of historic parchments, papers and maps of the draining of the fens from over 300 years ago.
The award, from the National Cataloguing Grants Programme, will enable archivists to create detailed lists of the unique documents left by the Bedford Level Corporation, which made the great fen drains during the seventeenth century.
The project, called "The Fen Office Revisted", is also being supported by the Environment Agency and the Cambridgeshire Family History Society. As part of the project all this catalogued information will be placed online, thereby providing access to wider audiences.
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