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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.
Thus the River Ure and River Ouse can be counted as one river system or as two rivers. If it is counted as one, the River Aire/ River Ouse/Humber system would come fourth in the list, with a combined length of 161 miles (259 km); and the River Trent/Humber system would top the list with their combined length of 222 miles (357 km). [6]
Though an estuary, the Humber is often referred to as a river. The Humber river system is tidal as far inland as Naburn Lock on the River Ouse, [1] Knottingley on the River Aire [2] [3] and Askern on the River Don. [4] The Humber has the second largest tidal range in the UK at 7.2 metres (24 ft).
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River Neckinger (See also Subterranean rivers of London for this and the others marked 'subterranean' below) Walbrook (subterranean) River Fleet (subterranean, also known as the Holbourne) River Effra (subterranean) River Tyburn (subterranean) Falconbrook (subterranean) River Westbourne (subterranean) Tyburn Brook (subterranean) Counter's Creek ...
From Sherston the river flows east to Malmesbury, where it is joined by its first major tributary, the Tetbury Avon, which rises just east of Tetbury in Gloucestershire. [8] [9] This is known locally as the Ingleburn, [10] which in Old English means 'English river'. The two rivers flow north and south of a rocky outcrop, almost creating an ...
The River Stour (/ ˈ s t aʊər /, rhymes with "hour" [1]) is a river in Kent, England that flows into the North Sea at Pegwell Bay. Above Plucks Gutter , where the Little Stour joins it, the river is normally known as the Great Stour .
The river-name Stour, common in England, does not occur at all in Wales; [1] Crawford noted two tributaries of the Po River near Turin, spelled Sture. In Germany the Stoer flows into the River Elbe. The name Stour is pronounced differently in different cases.