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River Length Notes (miles) (km) 1 River Severn: 220 354 Longest river in the United Kingdom; leaves Wales after 48 miles (77 km). 2 River Wye: 135 217 Forms the Wales-England border for much of its length. 3 River Teme: 81 130 Entirely in England after 12 miles (19 km). 4 River Usk: 78 126 [3] Longest river entirely in Wales according to some ...
Category: Rivers of Wales by principal area. ... Wales (2 C, 5 P) P. Rivers of Pembrokeshire (11 P) Rivers of Powys (5 C, 70 P) R. Rivers of Rhondda Cynon Taf (1 C ...
Welsh River Names. In Welsh, Afon means River, and Nant means Stream. So all waterways beginning with River, ... Rivers of Wales by principal area (22 C)
The following is a list of estuaries of Wales. Wales's many estuaries are generally named for the principal river which enters the sea through them. [1] Those indicated thus * are listed at this reference. [2] Afan estuary* Alaw estuary* Artro estuary* Cefni estuary* Conwy estuary; Daugleddau estuary; Dee estuary* Dwyryd estuary (known as ...
The River Severn (Welsh: Afon Hafren, pronounced [ˈavɔn ˈhavrɛn]), at 220 miles (354 km) long, is the longest river in Great Britain. [4] [5] It is also the river with the most voluminous flow of water by far in all of England and Wales, with an average flow rate of 107 m 3 /s (3,800 cu ft/s) at Apperley, Gloucestershire.
The former county of Clwyd, consisting of the modern-day principal areas of Denbighshire, Flintshire, Wrexham and most of Conwy, was named after the river, when it was created as a two-tier county in 1974. Fish in the river include sea trout (sewin), as well as Atlantic salmon. In the 2017 season there were reported catches of wild brown trout ...
Afon Rheidol (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈr̥ei̯dɔl]; also known as the River Rheidol) is a river in Ceredigion, Wales, 19 miles (31 km) in length. The source is Plynlimon . Receiving an average annual rainfall of 40 inches (1.02 m), Plynlimon is also the source of both the Wye and the Severn .
Although the spoken form in the local North Wales dialect is Ogwan (with an A), and it has also recently been shown that Ogwan is an original form of the name; the form Ogwen is believed to have been mistakenly adopted as a kind of back-formation, because many words ending in -en become -an in the north Wales dialect. The name of the river is ...