It had a border with Leyton Urban District ( a municipal borough from 1926 ) in Essex to the east and to the north, from which it was divided by Hackney Marshes.

The plots share the same basic structure progressing in the same sequence: the stories begin at Bag End, the home of Bilbo Baggins ; Gandalf sends the protagonist into a quest eastward ; Elrond offers a haven and advice ; the adventurers escape dangerous creatures underground ( Goblin Town / Moria ); they engage another group of elves ( The Elf King's realm / Lothlórien ); they traverse a desolate region ( Desolation of Smaug / the Dead Marshes ); they fight in a massive battle ; a descendant of kings is restored to his ancestral throne ( Bard / Aragorn ); and the questing party returns home to find it in a deteriorated condition ( having possessions auctioned off / the scouring of the Shire ).

Thamesmead, the " new town " built on what was the Erith Marshes, extends into the Borough: both Thamesmead North and South are located here.

After Aylsham Lock and Burgh Bridge, the Bure passes through Buxton Lammas, Coltishall, Belaugh, Wroxham, Horning, Ludham Bridge, past St. Benet's Abbey, through Oby, Acle, Stokesby, along the northern border of the Halvergate Marshes, through Runham and Great Yarmouth where it meets Breydon Water and flows into the sea at Gorleston.

Marshes ( and other wetlands ) are able to absorb water during periods of heavy rainfall and slowly release it into waterways and therefore reduce the magnitude of flooding.

Alternatively, on the other side of the Apennines, highway 7 ( the old Roman Appian Way ) followed along the west coast but south of Rome ran into the Pontine Marshes which the Germans had flooded.

* By the 14th century, much of the Walland and Denge Marshes had been reclaimed by " innings ", the process of throwing up an embankment around the sea-marsh and using the low-tide to let it run dry by means of one-way drains set into the new seawall, running off into a network of dykes called locally " sewers "

However, due to the stubborn defense by Polish units, Tukhachevsky's plan to break through the front and push the defenders southwest into the Pinsk Marshes failed.

In addition there is also an SSSI at Amble Marshes on the River Amble which flows into the Camel Estuary between Wadebridge and Rock.

By contrast, the Swiss historian Philippe Burrin argues that such a decision was not made before August 1941 at the earliest, pointing to orders given by Himmler on July 30, 1941 to the 2nd SS Cavalry Regiment and the SS Cavalry Brigade operating in the Pripet Marshes in the Pripyat operation calling for the murder of male Jews only while the Jewish women and children were to be driven into the Marshes.

* Macquarie River-rises in the central tablelands of New South Wales near the town of Oberon, flows northwest to the Macquarie Marshes then into the Barwon River.

To the south, the terrain runs into the Pripet Marshes at the headwaters of the Dnieper River ; these have been an effective barrier over the millennia.

The Macquarie Marshes then drain into the Darling River via the lower Barwon River.

Such areas are still considered to be among the finest landscape in the county, with several such places being made into sanctuaries for the local wildlife, most recently ‘ Carlton Marshes ’, a reasonable sized lake / pond dedicated to the preservation of many water creatures and a great variety of birds.

Here the river divides, the main channel becoming Rainham Creek, where it flows into the Thames between Hornchurch Marshes ( to the west ) and Rainham Marshes ( to the east ) at Old Man's Head.

It then turns east through Crayford and Barnes Cray before joining the Darent, which flows northwards into the River Thames between Crayford Marshes and Dartford Marshes.

In January 2007, the Railway entered another era as M-real closed Sittingbourne Paper Mill, however, as one door closes, another opens-Church Marshes Country Park now has a managing committee and will see the surrounding area between Milton Regis Halt and Kemsley Down being turned into a fully-fledged country park.

Marshes and wetlands exist in a few places in the region, and several rivers drain the region into Lake Superior, including the Brule River, which is surrounded by a State Forest.

Evans returned to Tasmania in 1817 but was again to return to NSW to journey with his superior John Oxley on travels into the Lachlan River areas, along the path of the Macquarie River to the Macquarie Marshes and eastwards to the coast to Port Macquarie.

Tukhachevski's plan to break through and push the southwest Polish units into the Pinsk Marshes ( Błota Poleskie ) failed, but the northern theatre proven to be his decisive victory.

The sea washed over what is now Pevensey Marshes, surrounding the fort on three sides.

Marshes provide habitat for many types of plants and animals that have adapted to living in flooded conditions.

Between Capua and Rome lay the Pontine Marshes ( Pomptinae paludes ), a swamp infested with malaria.

In its northern section both banks of the Elbe are characterised by flat, very fertile marshlands ( Elbe Marshes ), former flood plains of the Elbe now diked.

It is by some fixed some 5 km southeast of the modern village of Cisterna di Latina just before the Via Appia enters the Pontine Marshes, at a point where the modern road to Ninfa and Norba diverges to the northeast, where a few ruins still exist ( Grotte di Nottola ), 53 km from Rome.

Berney Marshes is a nature reserve in the care of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ), and part of the Halvergate Marshes.

A fifth group, the Ataronchronons ( People of the Marshes or Bog ), may not have attained full membership in the confederacy, and may have been a division of the Attignawantan.

His most famous poems were " Corn " ( 1875 ), " The Symphony " ( 1875 ), " Centennial Meditation " ( 1876 ), " The Song of the Chattahoochee " ( 1877 ), " The Marshes of Glynn " ( 1878 ), and " Sunrise " ( 1881 ).

He wrote several of his greatest poems in this meter, including " Revenge of Hamish " ( 1878 ), " The Marshes of Glynn " and " Sunrise ".

Barbara Strachey, in her fictionalised atlas Journeys of Frodo, depicts the Dead Marshes as an eastward extension of the swamps of Nindalf ( Wetwang ), although on the Lord of the Rings map they appear separate.

* The creation of a new wetland nature reserve in the Thames Marshes by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ), the Land Restoration Trust, Basildon District Council and Veolia.

Water Margin ( known in Chinese as Shuihu Zhuan, sometimes abbreviated to Shuihu ), also known as Outlaws of the Marsh, Tale of the Marshes, All Men Are Brothers, Men of the Marshes, or The Marshes of Mount Liang, is a 14th century novel and one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.

* The Marshes ( Al-Ahwar ), directed by Kassem Hawal, 1975

* Lakes and Marshes: Komeryoujinzouko ( 米良人造湖 ), Chigokeike ( 稚児ケ池 )

* E. A. Stanton, " The Great Marshes of the White Nile ", Journal of the Royal African Society, 2 ( July, 1903 ), pp. 375 – 379.

Swift Boats ( Patrol Craft Fast-PCF ), and PBRs ( Patrol Boat River ) conducted boat operations throughout the currently named Napa-Sonoma Marshes State Wildlife Area, on the north and west portions of Mare Island.

The Macquarie Marshes have been identified by BirdLife International as a 2378 km < sup > 2 </ sup > Important Bird Area ( IBA ), defined by the maximum extent of the 1990 floods.

To publicise their campaign they highlighted the dangers to sites well known through literature such as The Lake District ( Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons and Beatrix Potter's Mrs Tiggy-Winkle ), the North Kent Marshes ( Charles Dickens's Great Expectations ) and the River Pang.

To the east is the River Lea ( spelled Lea or Lee ), on the other side of which is the expanse of the Walthamstow Marshes, part of which is in the Lee Valley Park.

Mai Po Marshes ( 米埔 ) is located in the centre of the wetland and has achieved international significance as a stopping and feeding place for migratory birds along the East Asian-Australian Flyway.

The Macquarie Marshes Nature Reserve is a natural wetland reserve located within the Macquarie Marshes, in the region along the lower Macquarie River in northwestern New South Wales, Australia, about northwest of Sydney.

The Ingrebourne Marshes are a Site of Special Scientific Interest because of the diversity of its wildlife and extensive areas of wetland reeds.

They became friends and De Wiart was given the use of a large estate called Prostyń, in the Pripet Marshes, a large wetland area larger than Ireland and well known for waterfowl.