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The Trent passes over a man-made waterfall in Hollin Wood just downstream from its source. The Trent is the third longest river in the United Kingdom. Its source is in Staffordshire, on the southern edge of Biddulph Moor. It flows through and drains the North Midlands into the Humber Estuary. The river is known for dramatic flooding after ...
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 ...
Thus the River Ure and River Ouse can be counted as one river system or as two rivers. If it is counted as one, the River Aire/ River Ouse/Humber system would come fourth in the list, with a combined length of 161 miles (259 km); and the River Trent/Humber system would top the list with their combined length of 222 miles (357 km). [6]
The River Soar (/ s ɔːr /) is a major tributary of the River Trent in the East Midlands as well as the principal river of Leicestershire, England. The source of the river is midway between Hinckley and Lutterworth. The river then flows north through Leicester, where it is joined by the Grand Union Canal.
The River Tame is a river in the West Midlands of England, and one of the principal tributaries of the River Trent. [4] The Tame is about 95 km (59 mi) long from the source at Oldbury to its confluence with the Trent near Alrewas, [1] but the main river length of the entire catchment, i.e. the Tame and its main tributaries, is about 285 km (177 mi).
Lyme Brook is a tributary stream of the River Trent, which flows through Newcastle-under-Lyme, and the outlying areas of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England. [3] [4]
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 Derwent is a river in Derbyshire, England. It is 50 miles (80 km) [1] long and is a tributary of the River Trent, which it joins south of Derby. [2] Throughout its course, the river mostly flows through the Peak District and its foothills. Much of the river's route, with the exception of the city of Derby, is rural.