water-meadow
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thumb|The water meadow at Magdalen College, Oxford, is an island in the River Cherwell
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Vinony files it under Environmental terminology, History of agriculture and Landscape history.
Its subject is documented across 12 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Subclass of
- history of agriculture
- Image
- Harnham Water Meadows - geograph.org.uk - 2425623.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Types
- Catchwork water-meadow
- Bedwork water-meadow
- Uses
- Derelict water-meadows
- Working water-meadows
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|The water meadow at Magdalen College, Oxford, is an island in the River Cherwell
A water-meadow (also water meadow or watermeadow) is an area of grassland subject to controlled irrigation to increase agricultural productivity. Water-meadows were mainly used in Europe from the 16th to the early 20th centuries. Working water-meadows have now largely disappeared, but the field patterns and water channels of derelict water-meadows remain common in areas where they were used, such as parts of Northern Italy, Switzerland and England. Derelict water-meadows are often of importance as wetland wildlife habitats.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “water-meadow” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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