出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/05/05 21:57 UTC 版)
Hatfield Chase was a low-lying area in South Yorkshire, England which often flooded and is chiefly known from the Battle of Hatfield Chase in 633. It was a royal hunting ground until Charles I appointed the Dutch engineer Cornelius Vermuyden to drain it in 1626. This changed the whole nature of a wide swathe of land including the Isle of Axholme and caused legal disputes for the rest of the century.