Editing The Fens (section)

==In popular culture and media==
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[[File:Flag of the Fens.svg|thumb|The so-called "Flag of the Fens", designed by resident vexillographer James Bowman in 2016. Although it has yet to be registered with the [[Flag Institute]], the design has gained widespread popularity as the de facto flag of the region. The tiger is a homage to the term "Fen Tiger", which was originally coined in the 17th century to describe locals who exhibited fierce resistance to the drainage schemes in the Fens. The yellow symbolises the agricultural prosperity of the Fens, while the blue represents both the natural and man-made waterways of the region.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thelocalview.co.uk/cambridgeshire-and-fenland-flags/ |title=Flying the Local Flags for Cambridgeshire and Fenland |author= |date= |work=The Local View - Cambridge |access-date=28 August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author= |date=10 November 2018 |title=Fens flag campaign to capture "fighting qualities" |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-46141850 |access-date=28 August 2024 |work=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/people/mp-calls-for-flag-of-the-fens-to-be-added-to-the-official-flag-register-4754997 |title=MP calls for "Flag of the Fens" to be added to the official flag register |author=Gemma Gadd |date=23 August 2024 |work=Peterborough Telegraph |access-date=28 August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://britishcountyflags.com/2016/11/21/fenland/ |title=The Fens |author= |date=21 November 2016 |work=British County Flags |access-date=28 August 2024}}</ref>]]

Some authors have featured the Fens repeatedly in their work. For example:
*[[John Gordon (author)|John Gordon]], writer of adolescent fiction and author of ''[[The Giant Under The Snow]]'', drew inspiration for many of his supernatural fantasies from the Fens. His books with Fenland themes include: ''Ride The Wind'', ''Fen Runners'' and ''The House On The Brink'', which was based on [[Peckover House]] in [[Wisbech]].
*[[Joy Ellis]] set her multiple detective series in the Fens: ''DI Nikki Galena series'', ''Detective Matt Ballard series'' and ''DI Rowan Jackman & DS Marie Evans series'', soon to be turned into a television adaptation (see below). Her stand-alone psychological fiction ''Guide Star'' is also set in the Fens.
*[[Peter F. Hamilton]] sets a number of his science-fiction novels in the Fens, including ''[[Mindstar Rising]]'' and ''[[A Quantum Murder]]''.
*[[M. R. James]] set several of his ghost stories in the Fens.
*[[Jim Kelly (author)|Jim Kelly]] set ''The Water Clock'', ''The Moon Tunnel'' and ''The Funeral Owl'' in the Fens.
*[[Philippa Pearce]], a children's author, set many of her books in the Fens, for example ''[[Tom's Midnight Garden]]''.
*[[Gladys Mitchell]], prolific writer of detective fiction, took her eccentric sleuth, the psychiatrist Mrs Lestrange Bradley, to the Fens in several books, notably ''The Worsted Viper'', ''Wraiths and Changelings'' and ''The Mudflats of the Dead''.
*[[Robert Louis Stevenson]]'s [[The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses|''The Black Arrow'']] has several chapters set in the Fens.
*[[Nick Warburton]] wrote a series of radio plays entitled ''On Mardle Fen'', one of the longest-running series of plays on [[BBC Radio 4]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/programmes/o/on/on_mardle_fen.html|title=On Mardle Fen|website=Radiolistings.co.uk|access-date=31 May 2022|archive-date=2 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302083405/http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/programmes/o/on/on_mardle_fen.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[Susanna Gregory]]'s ''Matthew Bartholomew chronicles''{{'}} title character is a fictional physician living in 14th-century Cambridge.
* [[G. A. Henty]]'s book ''Beric the Briton'' mentions some sections in the Fens.
* [[Norah Lofts]] features a character called Ethelreda Benedict, who comes from a small island in the Fens in the 17th century, in the second book of her ‘House’ trilogy, ''The House at Old Vine''.
* [[Louis L'Amour]]'s ''To The Far Blue Mountains'', the central character Barnabas Sackett from [[Sackett#Sackett's Land (novel)|''Sackett's Land'']] returns to his home in the Fens one last time in the opening chapter.

The following fictions, or substantial portions of them, are set in the Fens:
*[[Joy Ellis]]: ''D.I. Nikki Galena'' series, ''Jackman and Evans'' series, ''Detective Matt Ballard series'', ''Guide Star''
* [[Sabine Baring-Gould]]: ''Cheap Jack Zita''
*[[Hal Foster]]: ''[[Prince Valiant]]''
*[[Martha Grimes]]: ''The Case Has Altered'', set in and around [[Algarkirk]], Lincolnshire
*[[Georgette Heyer]]: ''[[A Civil Contract]]''
*[[Charles Kingsley]]: ''[[Hereward the Wake (novel)|Hereward the Wake]]''
*[[Louis L'Amour]]: [[Sackett#Sackett's Land (novel)|''Sackett's Land'']]
*[[Dorothy L. Sayers]]: ''[[The Nine Tailors]]''
*[[Gregory Maguire]]: ''[[Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister]]''
*[[Graham Swift]]: ''[[Waterland (novel)|Waterland]]'' (made into a film, listed below)
*[[Robert Westall]]: ''Futuretrack 5''
*[[Eric Flint]] and [[Andrew Dennis]]: ''1635: A Parcel of Rogues''
*[[Philip Pullman]]: ''[[Northern Lights (Pullman novel)|Northern Lights]]''
*[[Lesley Glaister]]: ''Honour Thy Father''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lesleyglaister.weebly.com/honour-thy-father.html|title=Honour thy father|website=Lesley Glaister|access-date=19 March 2018|archive-date=19 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180319151412/http://lesleyglaister.weebly.com/honour-thy-father.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[P. D. James]]: ''[[Death of an Expert Witness]]''
*[[Constance Heaven]]: ''Lord of Ravensley''
*[[Paul Kingsnorth]]: ''[[The Wake (novel)|The Wake]]''<ref name=thorpe>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/02/the-wake-paul-kingsnorth-review-literary-triumph|title=The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth review 'A literary triumph'|last=Thorpe|first=Adam|date=2 April 2014|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=15 September 2015}}</ref>
*Jordy Rosenberg: ''[[Confessions of the Fox]]''
*[[Stella Tillyard]]: ''The Great Level''
*[[H. G. Wells]]: ''[[The Croquet Player]]''
* [[Jill Dawson]]: ''The Tell-Tale Heart''
*[[Caryl Churchill]]: [[Fen (play)|''Fen'']] 

Some films have large portions set in the Fenlands:
*''[[Dad Savage]]'' (1998), starring [[Patrick Stewart]], was set and filmed in the [[King's Lynn]] area.
*''[[Waterland (film)|Waterland]]'' (1992), directed by [[Stephen Gyllenhaal]].

And television:

*[[Fenlands (film)|''Fenlands'']] 1945 documentary film
*The 1974 [[Look and Read]] series ''Cloud Burst'' was set and filmed in the Fens.
*The episode ''Three Miles Up'' of the 1995 BBC series [[Ghosts (1995 series)|''Ghosts'']] was set in the Fens.
*[[Thomas & Friends]] has a bridge on the Brendam Branch called the Fenland Track that crosses over a marsh.
*The 2019 TV series [[Wild Bill (TV series)|''Wild Bill'']] was set around Boston, Lincolnshire.

Music:
* Ralph Vaughan Williams: ''[[In the Fen Country]]''

Video games also have been set in the Fens:

*The Bedford Level appears in the video game ''[[Tom Clancy's EndWar]]'' as a possible battlefield.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://endwargame.us.ubi.com/locations.php |title=Locations |author=Ubisoft |author-link=Ubisoft |publisher=[[Ubisoft]] |date=2008|access-date=1 April 2011}}</ref>
*''[[The Lost Crown: A Ghost-Hunting Adventure]]'' is set in a fictional town called Saxton, located in the Fens.
*In the game ''[[Sir, You Are Being Hunted]]'' the Fens is an area that the game can randomly generate.