Hatfield Chase, a fenny tract of land in the West Riding of Yorkshire, lying between the Trent and Doncaster, some 180,000 acres in extent, which has been drained, and is now cultivated. See The Level of Hatfield Chase, by John Tomlinson (1882).
Hatfield Chase
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 583
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