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The river valley was largely drained and used as agricultural land in the past. The original course of the river, the
Minsmere Old River, runs to the north of the Minsmere New Cut, an artificial drainage channel built in 1812. This reaches the sea at Minsmere Sluice, a tidal sluice which discharges
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Level, an area of drained and re-flooded marshland with underlying alluvial geology. The area to the south of the
Minsmere New Cut is used a grazing marsh. To the north the wetland areas are flooded and managed as part of the
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A number of the drainage channels and river banks have been subject to flooding. Flood defence work has been carried out on the New Cut and associated sluices as well as at
Reckford Bridge in Middleton.
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stood to the south of the river on the
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