The Fens, Ely, Wisbech? That’s Cambridgeshire – miles to the west.

But, John, while we’re on the topic of those naughty poppies, here’s what Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote (in 1808) about your native territory:

“I shall deem it a sacred Duty to publish my Case, tho’ without my name — for the practice of taking Opium is dreadfully spread. — Throughout Lancashire & Yorkshire it is the common Dram of the lower orders of People — in the small Town of Thorpe the Druggist informed me, that he commonly sold on market days two or three Pound of Opium, & a Gallon of Laudanum — all among the labouring Classes.” (CL, iii 125-6)