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This is a list of current bridges and other crossings of the River Ouse in Yorkshire, and are listed from Ouse Gill Beck downstream to the river's mouth. The River Ouse is listed on mapping as starting where the Ouse Gill Beck enters the River Ure, just south of the village of Great Ouseburn , ( SE473604 ). [ 1 ]
The River Ouse (/ uː z / OOZ) is a river in North Yorkshire, England. Hydrologically, the river is a continuation of the River Ure, and the combined length of the River Ure and River Ouse makes it, at 129 miles (208 km), the sixth-longest river of the United Kingdom and (including the Ure) the longest to flow entirely in one county. The length ...
View of the River Ouse in York from Lendal Bridge Simplified map of Yorkshire's rivers. This is a list of named rivers that flow either wholly or partially within the boundaries of the four ceremonial counties that form Yorkshire. There are twenty five rivers of at least 20 kilometres (12 miles) in total.
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 .
Its replacement, Ouse Bridge, was a wooden bridge built about 380 yards (350 m) downstream by the Vikings. It has been rebuilt three times, most recently between 1810 and 1820. The Scarborough Railway Bridge of 1845 was the third to be built and was followed by two more road bridges, Lendal Bridge in 1863 and Skeldergate Bridge in 1882.
Bridges across the River Ouse, Yorkshire (18 P) I. Isle of Axholme (5 C, 42 P) O. Ouse catchment (2 C, 25 P) T. Tributaries of the River Ouse, Yorkshire (1 C)
Port of Goole on a target dossier of the German Luftwaffe, 1940. Whilst the location of Goole as a settlement has been around since Anglo-Saxon times, [5] the land surrounding the area of Goole was marshy, and only drained when King Charles I granted Cornelius Vermuyden the right to drain the land and divert the River Don into the Ouse, rather than the Trent. [6]
The River Foss is a left bank tributary of the River Ouse, situated near the York Castle. In the years 1947, 1978, 1982 and end of 2015 flooding occurred causing many areas to be under water. In 1982, a feasibility study was undertaken that indicated flood levels in the Foss are directly related to River Ouse levels.