When that happens the thorge will be destroyed and the land reclaimed.

Farmers could themselves undertake reclamation work, with the land reclaimed being incorporated into their tenancies.

Then to the south of the route you travel through Halvergate Marshes, land reclaimed from the sea.

It had been drained so that land could be "reclaimed" for farming.

"You scrape it clean and 50 years later the land reclaims itself."

The first land reclaimed was in 1996.

Most of the farms in North Coventry were abandoned, and the land reclaimed by second-growth forest.

A southern breakwater was constructed in 1962 and land reclaimed to house fishing companies and service industries.

In 1908 the wooden backwater bridge was replaced and some land reclaimed.

By then, Tiber Creek had been covered over, the swamps dredged and filled, the land reclaimed.