41. Its remains stand in an area of water meadows next to the River Arun, southwest of the village of Hardham. 42. Musselburgh members didn't think much of it at the time, and they laughed and called it " water meadow ." 43. This site on the bank of the River Misbourne has wet alluvial and water meadows , marsh and alder carr woodland. 44. Very little meadow was recorded in the Domesday survey; the majority lay in river valleys and probably represented water meadows . 45. With the addition of further areas of water meadows , it became the " Biosphere Reserve Middle Elbe " in 1990. 46. It was built in 1292 by the Leine water meadows as a water castle on the southern part of the Calenberg. 47. The site is wet willow and alder woodland close to the River Thames, fed by a ditch from neighbouring water meadows . 48. Chorlton Ees is an area of floodplain on the right bank of the Mersey once used as water meadow and pasture. 49. On Google Earth, the signs of many of the old drainage channels that turned the marsh into water meadow are still visible. 50. Beyond the river, Mansbridge takes on a much more rural air, with woodland to the south and water meadows to the north.
