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In the 17th century Izaak Walton described the River Trent as 'One of the finest rivers in the world and the most abounding with excellent salmon and all sorts of delicate fish.' [150] A list composed in 1641 for the Trent, contained thirty types of fish and other species including those that migrated from the sea such as shad, smelt, salmon ...
A stretch of the natural river now known as Peel's Cut in 2017, including the Andresey Bridge. Peel's Cut is a man-made waterway connected to the River Trent in Burton on Trent, Staffordshire, in England. It was originally constructed by Robert "Parsley" Peel in the early 1780s to drive a cotton mill. The mill closed in 1849 and the cut was ...
In 1590, Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene described the River Trent and its fish fauna as follows: [3] The beauteous Trent which in itself enseams, Thirty kinds of fish and thirty different streams. This couplet was closely echoed in 1612, in Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion description of the Trent: [4] Or thirty kinds of fish that in my ...
The Trent at Jenny Hurn The pumping station Jenny Hurn, the Half-Part footpath (on the west side) and pumping station (on the east) shown on a late 19th/early 20th-century Ordnance Survey map. The Jenny Hurn is a bend on the River Trent in Lincolnshire, England. It is a tight bend on the navigable stretch of the river and historically has been ...
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The River Ouse flows to the east where it turns into the Humber, and the River Trent flows northwards. It curves to the east near the confluence, although this is largely engineered, rather than natural. A training wall was built on the western bank of the Trent after the First World War, in an attempt to keep the channel in a known position ...
This is a list of crossings of the River Trent, a major river flowing through the Midlands of England. The table lists crossings that have been identified downstream from the River Sow confluence, the first major tributary on the river. Starting at Essex Bridge it includes ferries; road, rail, foot and pipe bridges found along the river to ...
The river then flows through the nature reserve of Doxey Marshes until it reaches Stafford, where it flows through Victoria park. Beyond the town at Baswich the Sow is joined by its largest tributary the River Penk , it then continues beneath the bridge between Milford and Tixall until it flows through the grounds of Shugborough Hall to meet ...