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Fine country, not good as marsh (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

fenland

'marsh' is the definition.
(I know that marsh can be written as fenland)

'fine country not good' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'fine' could be 'f' (abbreviation) and 'f' is present in the answer.
'country' could be 'land' (synonyms) and 'land' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'en' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'as' is the link.

(Another definition for fenland that I've seen is " Marshy area".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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