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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 .
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 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.
The district and county councils also form part of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, led by the Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. The town council is based at the Priory Centre, on the banks of the River Great Ouse. The council consists of 21 elected councillors [29] including a town mayor and a deputy town mayor ...
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 Great Ouse provides a link to the sea at King's Lynn, and the River Cam flows from Cambridge to join the Great Ouse to the south of Ely. King Cnut arrived at Ely by boat for the Purification of St Mary; "When they were approaching land [at Ely], the king rose up in the middle of his men and directed the boatmen to make for the little port ...
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Cambridgeshire is a county in eastern England, with an area of 339,746 hectares (1,312 sq mi) [1] and a population as of mid-2015 of 841,218. [2] It is crossed by the Nene and the Great Ouse rivers. The University of Cambridge, which was