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Map of proposed Fens Waterways Link River Ancholme. The Fens and Anglian system is a collection of rivers in East Anglia in England that are navigable and for which the Environment Agency is the navigation authority. [1] Many of the rivers drain The Fens between Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire.
The Kingdom of the East Angles (Old English: Ēastengla Rīċe; Latin: Regnum Orientalium Anglorum), informally known as the Kingdom of East Anglia, was a small independent kingdom of the Angles during the Anglo-Saxon period comprising what are now the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and perhaps the eastern part of the Fens, [1] the area still known as East Anglia.
East Anglia was ideally suited to airfield construction, as it includes large areas of open, level terrain and is close to mainland Europe. Many of the airfields can still be seen today, particularly from aerial photographs, and a few remain in use, the most prominent being Norwich International Airport .
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.
"Map 5. Palaeogeography of the Elsterian / Anglian / Oka Stage". North West European Rivers. Cambridge UK: Quaternary Palaeoenvironments Group. (Includes PDF file of map) Rolfe, C.; et al. (2004). "Annotated photographs of the North Norfolk coast". Cambridge UK: Quaternary Palaeoenvironments Group.
The border of Europe and Asia is here defined as from the Kara Sea, along the Ural Mountains and Ural River to the Caspian Sea.While the crest of the Caucasus Mountains is the geographical border with Asia in the south, Georgia, and to a lesser extent Armenia and Azerbaijan, are politically and culturally often associated with Europe; rivers in these countries are therefore included.
Still, East Anglia is a region of great natural beauty and cultural richness, and it’s something of a mystery why the region has remained so firmly off the tourist radar for so long.
The River Stour (/ ˈ s t ʊər, ˈ s t aʊər /, pronounced rhyming with either "tour" or "sour") [1] is a major river in East Anglia, England. It is 47 miles (76 km) long [2] and forms most of the county boundary between Suffolk to the north, and Essex to the south.