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Main rivers (Welsh: prif afonydd [1]) are a statutory type of watercourse in England and Wales, usually larger streams and rivers, but also some smaller watercourses.A main river is designated by being marked as such on a main river map, and can include any structure or appliance for controlling or regulating the flow of water in, into or out of a main river.
This is a list of rivers of England, organised geographically and taken anti-clockwise around the English coast where the various rivers discharge into the surrounding seas, from the Solway Firth on the Scottish border to the Welsh Dee on the Welsh border, and again from the Wye on the Welsh border anti-clockwise to the Tweed on the Scottish border.
The Severn Bridges crossing near the mouth of the River Severn The River Thames in London The River Tay in Perth, by measured flow the largest in Great Britain. This is a list of the major rivers of the United Kingdom, as being prominent in length, flow volume (discharge rate), or both.
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St John's Lock and Lechlade in background (River Thames). Water transport played a vital role in the UK's industrial development. The beginning of the 19th century saw a move from roads to waterways, (i.e. canals, rivers, firths, and estuaries).
Borrans Reservoir, north of Windermere (town); Castle Carrock Reservoir; Chapelhouse Reservoir, south-east of Uldale; Cow Green Reservoir east of Dufton Fell; Dubbs Reservoir, north of Windermere (town)
Ordinary watercourses include every river, stream, ditch, drain, cut, dyke, sluice, sewer (other than a public sewer) and passage through which water flows and which does not form part of a main river.
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