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The English Channel, [a] [1] also known as the Channel, ... including at Wareham, Portland, near Weymouth and along the river Teign in Devon. ...
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 shortest distance across the strait, at approximately 20 miles (32 kilometres), is from the South Foreland, northeast of Dover in the English county of Kent, to Cap Gris Nez, a cape near to Calais in the French département of Pas-de-Calais. Between these points lies the most popular route for cross-channel swimmers. [1]
The Channel River was a prehistoric river flowing between England and France during periods of low sea level during the ice ages.Its tributaries included the river Rhine in modern-day Netherlands, the River Thames in modern-day England and other rivers.
The River Rother flows for 35 miles (56 km) through the English counties of East Sussex and Kent. Its source is near Rotherfield in East Sussex, and its mouth is on Rye Bay, part of the English Channel. Prior to 1287, its mouth was further to the east at New Romney, but it changed its course after a great storm blocked its exit to the sea.
The Seine, the Thames, the Meuse, the Scheldt, and the Rhine joined and flowed west along the English Channel as a broad, slow river before eventually reaching the Atlantic Ocean. [ 6 ] [ 10 ] In about 10,000 BCE the north-facing coastal area of Doggerland had a coastline of lagoons , saltmarshes , mudflats and beaches as well as inland streams ...
The Sound has three water entrances. The marine entrance is from the English Channel to the south, with a deep-water channel to the west of the Plymouth Breakwater. There are two freshwater inlets: one, from the northwest, is from the River Tamar via the Hamoaze and Devonport Dockyard, the largest naval
English Channel (50°14′12″N 4°50′29″W) Carnon River Chacewater (50°15′45″N 5°9′30″W) English Channel: River Cober Nine Maidens Downs: The Loe: De Lank River 9 mi (14 km) Bodmin Moor: River Camel: River Fal 29 km (18 mi) Goss Moor: English Channel: River Fowey 40 km (25 mi) Bodmin Moor: English Channel: River Gannel 13 km (8. ...