WATER-MEADOW

A 'water-meadow' (or 'watermeadow') is an area of grassland or pasture beside a river, subject to controlled seasonal flooding which increases the productivity of the grassland. Water-meadows were common in Italy, Switzerland, and England (from 1523) but have now largely disappeared. They are often confused with the flood-meadow, where flooding is not controlled but occurs with the level of the river.

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Examples

★ Grantchester Meadows

★ Runnymede

★ Harnham

★ North Meadow, Cricklade

See also

★ Coastal plain

★ Coastal prairie

★ Field

★ Flooded grasslands and savannas

★ Flood-meadow

★ Grassland

★ Meadow

★ Pasture

★ Plain

★ Prairie

★ Rangeland

★ Savanna

★ Steppe

★ Wet meadow

★ Veld

External links

★ PhD thesis abstract on watermeadows

★ Water Meadows: The lush pastures of the river valleys

Further reading

Hadrian Cook and Tom Williamson (eds.), Water management in the English landscape: field, marsh and meadow. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 1999.