At the start of Adventurers' Drove looking along Westmoor Common
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At the start of Adventurers' Drove looking along Westmoor Common
Image: © Richard Humphrey Taken: 19 Jul 2013
Adventurers were the equivalent of modern-day venture capitalists. They invested money in the pioneering drainage systems of the then waterlogged fens and received a percentage of the newly drained land as payment, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fens#Draining_the_Fens
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