The South Forty-Foot Drain is the main channel for the land-drainage of the Black Sluice Level in the Lincolnshire Fens. It lies in eastern England between Guthram Gowt and the Black Sluice pumping station on The Haven, at Boston. The Drain has its origins in the 1630s, when the first scheme to make the Fen land available for agriculture was carried out by the Earl of Lindsay, and has been steadily improved since then.

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  • The South Forty-Foot Drain is the main channel for the land-drainage of the Black Sluice Level in the Lincolnshire Fens. It lies in eastern England between Guthram Gowt and the Black Sluice pumping station on The Haven, at Boston. The Drain has its origins in the 1630s, when the first scheme to make the Fen land available for agriculture was carried out by the Earl of Lindsay, and has been steadily improved since then. Water drained from the land entered The Haven by gravity at certain states of the tide until 1946, when the Black Sluice pumping station was commissioned. The Drain was navigable until 1971, when improvements to the pumping station led to the entrance lock being removed. It is currently being upgraded to navigable status by the Environment Agency, as part of the Fens Waterways Link, with the new entrance lock being completed in December 2008, and the upgrading of the southern section, including a link to the River Glen to allow navigation to Spalding forming phase 2 of the project.
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  • The South Forty-Foot Drain at Pointon, between Boston and Guthrum Gowt. Here its origin as a drainage channel is very evident.
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  • Black Sluice Commissioners
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  • Guthram Gowt
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  • Earl of Lindsay
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  • 1 or 2 more locks will be required when the drain is joined to the River Glen
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  • The South Forty Foot crosses the medieval Midfen Dyke
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  • South Forty-Foot Drain
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  • Environment Agency
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  • Bicker Haven
  • Black Sluice
  • Caswall's Bridge
  • Donington High Bridge
  • Eau End
  • End of the SFF and Site of a new lock
  • Engine Drain and Weir Dyke join to form South Forty-Foot Drain (SFF)
  • Guthram
  • Kingston's Bridge
  • North Forty-foot drain
  • Pumping stations on both sides of the SFF
  • SFF will be widened from here to Guthram as part of Fens Waterways Link
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  • The SFF turns east to Boston
  • The SFF turns to the north east
  • The Twenty Foot Drain is a re-used part of the Lindsay Level works
  • The drain to the east was a part of the Medieval Midfen Dyke
  • The junction between the two systems
  • Tongue End
  • Weir Dyke near where Bourne Eau joins the River Glen
  • Wragmer Stake
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  • The South Forty-Foot Drain is the main channel for the land-drainage of the Black Sluice Level in the Lincolnshire Fens. It lies in eastern England between Guthram Gowt and the Black Sluice pumping station on The Haven, at Boston. The Drain has its origins in the 1630s, when the first scheme to make the Fen land available for agriculture was carried out by the Earl of Lindsay, and has been steadily improved since then.
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