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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 Severn Bridges crossing near the mouth of the River Severn The River Thames in London The River Tay in Perth, by measured flow the largest in Great Britain. This is a list of the major rivers of the United Kingdom, as being prominent in length, flow volume (discharge rate), or both.
Mouth Photo River Alport: 9 km (5.6 mi) Bleaklow: Confluence with River Ashop River Ashop: 10 km (6.2 mi) Mill Hill: Ladybower Reservoir: River Bradford: 7 km (4.3 mi) Gratton Moor Confluence with River Lathkill River Dane: 87 km (54 mi) Axe Edge Moor: Confluence with River Weaver: River Derwent: 80 km (50 mi) Bleaklow: Derwent Mouth, River ...
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The funnel shape of the river mouth exaggerates this effect, causing a large wave to travel upstream as far as Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, and sometimes beyond. The Aegir cannot travel much beyond Gainsborough as the shape of the river reduces the Aegir to little more than a ripple, and weirs north of Newark-on-Trent , Nottinghamshire, stop its ...
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.
A river mouth is where a river flows into a larger body of water, such as another river, a lake/reservoir, a bay/gulf, a sea, or an ocean. [1] At the river mouth, sediments are often deposited due to the slowing of the current, reducing the carrying capacity of the water. [1] The water from a river can enter the receiving body in a variety of ...
The River Don (also called River Dun in some stretches) is a river in South Yorkshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.It rises in the Pennines, west of Dunford Bridge, and flows for 69 miles (111 km) eastwards, through the Don Valley, via Penistone, Sheffield, Rotherham, Mexborough, Conisbrough, Doncaster and Stainforth.