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For other uses, see River Glen. There are at least five rivers called Glen: River Glen Lincolnshire, England River Glen Northumberland, England Glen Water

The River Glen is a river in Lincolnshire, England. "Riverine" redirects here For the use of that term in Maritime geography, see there Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in the east of England. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland

The river's name appears to derive from a Brythonic Celtic language but there is a strong early English connection. The Brythonic languages (or Brittonic languages or British languages) form one of the two branches of the Insular Celtic language family the other being The English people (from the adjective in Englisc) are a Nation and Ethnic group native to England who predominantly speak English

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In the language of the Romano-Britons, which has come down to us in the form of languages like Welsh, the neighbouring rivers, the Glen and the Welland seem to have been given contrasting names. Romano-British culture is that of the Romanized Britons under the Roman Empire and later the Western Roman Empire, and of those exposed to Roman culture in the years Welsh ( cy Cymraeg or cy y Gymraeg, kəmˈrɑːɨɡ and {{IPA|[ə ɡəmˈrɑːɨɡ]}}, is a member of the Brythonic branch of Celtic The River Welland is a River in the east of England, 56 km (35 m long and it has been a main waterway across the part of The Fens called "South The Welland flowed from the geological Northampton sands which in many places are bound together by iron oxide to form ironstone. The Northampton sand, sometimes called the Northamptonshire sand is a geological formation found in the East Midlands of England. Rust is a general term for a series of Iron oxides, usually red oxides formed by the reaction of Iron with Oxygen in the presence of water or air Ironstone is a fine-grained heavy and compact Sedimentary rock. In the Roman period, the sands were easily worked as arable land and the ironstone was dug for smelting. In Geography, arable land (from Latin arare, to Plough) is an agricultural term meaning land that can be used for Chemical reduction, or smelting, is a form of Extractive metallurgy. In both cases, the ground was exposed to erosion which meant that silt was carried down to The Fens by the river. Erosion is the carrying away or displacement of solids ( Sediment, Soil, rock and other particles usually by the agents of currents such as wind Silt is Soil or rock derived Granular material of a Grain size between sand and clay The Fens, also known as the Fenland, is a geographic area in eastern England, in the United Kingdom. "Riverine" redirects here For the use of that term in Maritime geography, see there In modern Welsh, gwaelod means bottom and its plural, gwaelodion means sediment. Sediment is any particulate matter that can be transported by fluid flow and which eventually is deposited as a layer of solid particles on the bed or bottom of a body of Among the medieval forms of the name 'Welland' is Weolod. Since, in certain grammatical circumstances (soft mutation) the Welsh initial 'G' is lost, the river seems to have been named from its silty nature. Lenition is a kind of Consonant mutation that appears in many Languages Along with assimilation, it is one of the primary sources of historical change In contrast, the Glen flowed from clays and limestone. Clay is a naturally occurring material composed primarily of fine-grained Minerals which show plasticity through a variable range of Water content, and Limestone is a Sedimentary rock composed largely of the Mineral Calcite ( Calcium carbonate: CaCO3 The former lent themselves to retention as woodland and the latter to grassland for pasture. Ecologically a woodland is an area covered in trees differentiated from a Forest. Grasslands (also called greenswards) are areas where the Vegetation is dominated by Grasses ( Poaceae) and other Herbaceous (non-woody Pasture is land with Herbaceous vegetation cover used for grazing of Ungulate Livestock as part of a Farm or Ranch. Consequently, the River Glen did not carry much sediment. The modern Welsh for clean is glân. The relative amounts of silt deposited in the fens around Maxey and around Thurlby respectively, by the two rivers, support this view. Maxey is a village in the City of Peterborough in England located between Peterborough & Stamford - it is home to nearly 700 residents Thurlby is called Thurlby by Bourne when there is a need to distinguish between it and Thurlby by Lincoln or the hamlet of Thurlby in the parish of

Geography

The river has two sources, both in the low ridge of Jurassic rocks in the west of the county. The Jurassic is a geologic period and system that extends from about Ma (million years ago to  Ma that is from the end of the Triassic to the beginning A county is a Land area of Regional Government within a larger State. Its upper reaches go under the names of East and West Glen but sometimes, the East Glen is called the Eden. This is a back-formation from its passing through the parish of Edenham. The two streams flow onto the sand and gravel of the bed of a former periglacial lake of the Devensian glacial. Periglacial is an adjective referring to places in the edges of glacial areas normally those related to past Ice ages rather than those in the modern era A lake (from Latin lacus) is a Terrain feature (or Physical feature) a body of Liquid on the surface of a world that is localized to the "Last glacial" redirects here For the period of maximum glacier extent during this time see Last Glacial Maximum The last glacial period Here, TF095133, they join, before entering The Fens where the Glen has been embanked and partially straightened. It is navigable for its last 12 miles (19km), from TF156188, its junction with Bourne Eau at Tongue End (map), via Pinchbeck and Surfleet to the tidal entrance sluice on the River Welland at TF280293, navigable only when the tidal level is the same as the river level (map). Bourne Eau rises in, otherwise known as St Peter's Pool in the town of Bourne Lincolnshire. Characteristics A tide is a repeated cycle of sea level changes in the following stages Over several hours the water rises or advances up a beach in the flood A sluice is a water channel that is controlled at its head by a gate

History

The Nennius text, Historia Britonum, tells us that Arthur, the war leader of the Britons fought his first battle against the Anglo-Saxons the mouth of the River Glein [sic]. Nennius, or Nemnivus, is either of two shadowy personages traditionally associated with the history of Wales. The Historia Brittonum, or The History of the Britons, is a historical work that was first written sometime shortly after AD 833 and exists in several For their language see Anglo-Saxon language. Anglo-Saxon is the term usually used to describe the invading Tribes in the south People have speculated about the battle's placement in several places, in Northumberland for example. The River Glen in Northumberland, England is a tributary of the River Till. However, the history of the Lincolnshire site fits the text well. This aerial photo shows the River Glen at Guthram, halfway between Twenty and West Pinchbeck. To the south, the Roman road across the fen lies hidden, buried in Baston Fen and Pinchbeck Common. The Roman Roads were essential for the growth of the Roman Empire, by enabling the Romans to move armies and trade goods and to communicate news In Arthur's time, around the year 500, the north-flowing section of the Glen entered tidal flats lying in Pinchbeck North Fen, to the north-east of Guthram. Mudflats (also tidal flats, tide flats, etc are coastal wetlands that form when mud is deposited by tides or rivers The line of the river to the east of Guthram appears to have originated as a sea bank but when sedimentation and fen enclosure caused the sea no longer to reach it, the river was led away along the bank so that the sea bank became one of river's banks instead. Sediment is any particulate matter that can be transported by fluid flow and which eventually is deposited as a layer of solid particles on the bed or bottom of a body of This article is about the body of water For other uses see SEA and Seas. The section of the A151 road on the 'seaward' side of the Glen was not built until 1822. The A151 road is relatively minor part of the British road system Year 1822 (MDCCCXXII was a Common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting on Sunday of the

Close to the year 500, the spread of Anglish settlement had recently reached Baston, at the other end of this Roman road, on the landward side of this fen but burial at the Urns Farm cemetery alongside King Street then stopped abruptly. The Angles is a modern English word for a Germanic-speaking people who took their name from the cultural ancestral region of Angeln, a modern district located in Baston is a parish on the edge of The Fens and in the Administrative district of South Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England. King Street is the name of a modern road on the line of a Roman road (

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