The Croston Drainage Scheme: co-operation and conflict in the development of the south-west Lancashire Landscape

John Virgoe

Landscape History, 2011, vol. 32, issue 1, 59-77

Abstract: The history, technology and economics of fenland drainage are briefly reviewed and a comparison made between the Lancashire mosslands and the Fens and Somerset Levels. In the eighteenth century Croston Finney was a low-lying, remote area subject to annual flooding on which improvement had been made on a small area by enclosure and piecemeal attempts at drainage by various landowners but complexity of land-holding and the differing township interests required a Drainage Act (1800) before real progress could be made. The scheme was finally completed in 1836 after prolonged efforts. The Croston Drainage Scheme provides a clear example of development by drainage, followed by reclamation and then settlement and the inter-relationships of landscape, economic and social history.

Date: 2011
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