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Salters Lode and Denver Sluice, 15th May 1929

Denver Sluice & Salters Lode

History of Denver Sluice

Denver Sluice is the core of the drainage system started by Cornelius Vermuyden in the 17th century.  This picture is taken from where the Old Bedford River meets the Great Ouse and New Bedford  rivers combined.

Denver Sluice circa 1957

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