The Haven is the tidal river of the Port of Boston, Lincolnshire in England. 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 port is a facility for receiving Ships and transferring cargo Boston ( is a town and small Port in Lincolnshire, on the east coast 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 It provides access for shipping between Boston Deeps in The Wash and the town, particularly, the dock. Shipping is physical process of Transporting goods and Cargo. The Wash is the square-mouthed Estuary on the northwest margin of East Anglia on the east coast of England, where Norfolk meets Lincolnshire A dock (from Dutch 'dok' is a man-made feature involved in the handling of boats or ships It also serves as the outfall into the sea, of the River Witham and of several major land drains of the northern Fens of eastern England. An outfall is the discharge point of a waste stream into a body of water alternatively it may be the outlet of a River, drain or a Sewer where it discharges The River Witham is a River, almost entirely in county of Lincolnshire, in the east of England. Drainage is the natural or artificial removal of surface and sub-surface water from a given area The Fens, also known as the Fenland, is a geographic area in eastern England, in the United Kingdom. (TF 337 426).
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Physical and economic development
The English settlers who arrived in The Wash, found tidal creeks which gave them entry to the habitable belt of land, inland from the salt-marshes. In Geography, a marsh, or morass, is a type of Wetland which is subject These creeks, they called "havens". There was a route inland from The Haven, with which this article deals, on which Boston later developed, to the upland of Lindsey. Lindsey was a unit of local government until 1974 in Lincolnshire, England, covering the northern part of the county However, the port of Boston did not develop until after natural events had diverted the River Witham into The Haven during the eleventh century.
Simultaneously, this took the river away from Drayton, (TF 241 399), which had become the successor port of Swineshead as its estuary accumulated silt. The Swin had been to Swineshead what the Zwin was to Bruges but after the loss of the Witham, Bicker became more important than Drayton so its estuary became known as Bicker Haven. Bruges (Brugge is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. Bicker is a village in Lincolnshire, England. It is around nine miles west-south-west of Boston, on the A52.
At the time of the Domesday Book (1086) The accounting for Boston was still done under the heading of the manors of Drayton but the wealth of Drayton's holdings, as recorded in the Domesday Book, in Skirbeck makes the presence of a working port at Boston, which then lay in Skirbeck, near certain. The Domesday Book (ˈduːmzdeɪ bʊk also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester) was the record of the great survey Skirbeck Wapentake was an administrative unit in the Parts of Holland Lincolnshire, England from the early eleventh century at the latest until
Before The Witham broke into it, The Haven's head was in the area which subsequently became the Market Place. The likely date for the switch of the Witham from Drayton to The Haven is 1014, the date recorded by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as one of unprecedented sea floods. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of Annals in Old English chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. There was another serious flood, later in the century but that came after 1086.
Subsequently, Boston and its Haven became busy with trade as wool was brought into the town for export, particularly to Flanders. Flanders (Vlaanderen Flandre Flandern is a geographical region located in parts of present day Belgium, France, and the Netherlands.
The modern port
Nowadays, the activity has moved below the old centre of the town. The fishing fleet moors below the railway bridge and trading vessels lie either in tidal berths beside the dock where there are facilities for handling scrap steel or in the dock itself where there are facilities for handling paper, steel coil and grain as well as timber and general cargo, including containers.
There are plans afoot, to build a tidal barrage in the neighbourhood of the Black Sluice so as to reduce the incidence of flooding in the town and to manage boat access between the River Witham and the South Forty-foot drain. The River Witham is a River, almost entirely in county of Lincolnshire, in the east of England. The South Forty-foot Drain is the main channel for the land-drainage of the Black Sluice Level in the Lincolnshire Fens.
Historical connection
In 1607, The Haven, between Boston and the sea (TF 361 402), was the scene of the first, abortive, attempt of the Scrooby Pilgrims, to leave England. Scrooby is a small Village, on the River Ryton and near Bawtry, in the northern part of the English county of Nottinghamshire Pilgrims, or Pilgrim Fathers (or Pilgrim Mothers) is a name commonly applied to the early settlers of the Plymouth Colony in present-day Plymouth Ultimately, in 1620, they became part of the original settlement of Plymouth, Massachusetts. See Pilgrim Fathers Memorial. The Pilgrim Fathers Memorial, located on the north bank of The Haven at the site of the former Scotia Creek Fishtoft, seaward of Boston in
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- Terraserver aerial photograph The North is to the top, Boston is to the West and the coast meets the edge of the picture at Freiston Shore. Not to be confused with Fr'''ie'''ston in the same county ( Parts of Kesteven) The mouth of the River Welland is to the south-west. The Haven joins Skirbeck to The Wash and is joined by the Hobhole Drain from the north.
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