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The River Great Ouse (/ uː z / ooz) is a river in England, the longest of several British rivers called "Ouse". From Syresham in Northamptonshire , the Great Ouse flows through Buckinghamshire , Bedfordshire , Cambridgeshire and Norfolk to drain into the Wash and the North Sea near Kings Lynn .
The River Cam (/ ˈ k æ m /) is the main river flowing through Cambridge in eastern England.After leaving Cambridge, it flows north and east before joining the River Great Ouse to the south of Ely, at Pope's Corner.
Ouse Washes is a linear 2,513.6-hectare (6,211-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest stretching from near St Ives in Cambridgeshire to Downham Market in Norfolk. It is also a Ramsar internationally important wetland site, a Special Protection Area for birds, a Special Area of Conservation and a Nature Conservation Review site ...
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River Great Ouse (3 C, 10 P) N. River Nene (1 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Rivers of Cambridgeshire" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
The Old Bedford River is an artificial, partial diversion of the waters of the River Great Ouse in the Fens of Cambridgeshire, England. It was named after the fourth Earl of Bedford who contracted with the local Commission of Sewers to drain the Great Level of the Fens beginning in 1630. It provided a steeper and shorter path for the waters of ...
The River Great Ouse was a significant means of transport until the Fens were drained and Ely ceased to be an island in the seventeenth century. [4] The river is now a popular boating spot, and has a large marina. Although now surrounded by land, the city is still known as the Isle of Ely.
The Ouse (/ uː z / OOZ) is a 35 miles (56 kilometres) long river [1] in the English counties of West and East Sussex. It rises near Lower Beeding in West Sussex, and flows eastwards and then southwards to reach the sea at Newhaven. It skirts Haywards Heath and passes through Lewes.