Cornelius Vermuyden
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Sir Cornelius Vermuyden (1595 – 11 October 1677)[1] was a Dutch engineer who introduced Dutch land reclamation methods to England.
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Born | 1595 (1595) |
Died | 16 October 1677(1677-10-16) (aged 81–82) |
Citizenship | Dutch Republic, United Kingdom (1633–1677) |
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Vermuyden was commissioned by the Crown to drain Hatfield Chase in the Isle of Axholme, Lincolnshire.
In the 1650s, he directed major projects to drain The Fens of East Anglia, introducing the innovation of constructing washes, to allow periodic flooding of the area by excess waters.[2]