River Torne Hatfield Chase off Idle Bank Lincolnshire UK
In 1626, Cornelius Vermuyden was commissioned by King Charles I to drain Hatfield Chase, a marshy area west of the River Trent, south of the River Ouse and south-west of the Humber Estuary now in north Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. He radically altered the courses of three rivers - the Don, Idle and Torne, the latter to enter the Trent through a sluice near Althorpe. The new route of the Torne was not entirely successful because the banks were not substantial enough to to contain high volumes of run-off and supposedly drained land was regularly subject to flooding. There was dissatisfaction among the inhabitants of the Hatfield Chase area with the effects of the drainage scheme, which resulted in riots and damage to the work. A series of lawsuits followed, and Vermuyden was jailed for a few months in 1633.
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