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The River Avon, Strathspey is a river in the Scottish Highlands, and a tributary of the River Spey.
The River Blackwater is a tributary of the River Loddon and, indirectly, of the River Thames.
The River Broadwater is a tributary of the River Loddon at Twyford, Berkshire..
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 STOUR - LoveToKnow Article on STOUR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
(1) The EastAnglian Stour rises in the slight chalk hills in the south-east of Cambridgeshire and follows a course ranging from east to southeast to the North Sea at Harwich, passing Clare, Sudbury, Nayland and Manningtree.
(2) The Kentish Stour or Great Stour rises on the southern face of the North Downs, the branch called the East Stour having its source not far inland from Hythe, but flowing at first away from the sea, while the main or western branch rises near Lenham.
Passing Canterbury, the Stour divides into two branches, the larger reaching the English Channel in Pegwell Bay, while the smaller runs north to the North Sea at Reculver.
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 ninemsn Encarta - England
England occupies all of the island east of Wales and south of Scotland, another country and division of the United Kingdom.
The most important are Plymouth, on the estuary of the River Tamar on the southern coast of the south-western peninsula; Bristol, on the Bristol Channel; and the port of Liverpool, at the mouth of the River Mersey on the north-west coast.
To the south of the Bristol Channel an elevated plateau slopes upward, culminating in the bleak uplands and moors of Cornwall and Devon on the south-west peninsula.
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 River West Stour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The River West Stour is actually named on Ordnance Survey maps as the River Great Stour in Kent.
It it rises south of the village of Lenham near Maidstone and joins with the River East Stour at Ashford.
This part of the river flows through rural countryside, passing the villages of Charing Heath and Little Chart (where there is a watermill), before entering Ashford near Great Chart.
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 River Stour, Kent - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The River Stour is a river in Kent, England.
It is Kent's second longest river (after the Medway) it is 21.5 miles long.
One of its sources rises at Postling near Hythe and becomes the River East Stour.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/River_Stour,_Kent   (186 words)

  
 east river
The boroughs of New York are connected by seven bridges over the East River: from north to south, the Throgs Neck Bridge, the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, the Triborough Bridge, the Queensborough Bridge, the Williamsburg Bridge, the Manhattan Bridge, and the Brooklyn Bridge.
The East River begins at the Long Island sound at the eastern boundary of New York City and flows between the boroughs of Bronx and Queens under the Throgs Neck and Whitestone bridges.
East River or Dongjiang River is a tributary of Pearl River that is the third largest river in China.
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 River Stour and Bures
The River Stour is one of the major rivers in Suffolk, which flows through the centre of the village.
The River Stour was made navigable as a commercial waterway in 1705 from Sudbury to the sea, unfortunately nearly all of the locks have disappeared.
The river rises in Cambridgeshire, North East of Haverhill at Wratting and follows a fifty mile course through Wixoe, Clare, Sudbury, Flatford and Dedham before it finally reaches the sea at Harwich.
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 Blackmore Vale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Blackmore Vale (less commonly spelt Blackmoor) is a vale, or wide valley, in North Dorset, and to a lesser extent South Somerset and southwest Wiltshire in southern England.
The vale is delimited by the Dorset Downs, a chalk ridge to the south; Cranborne Chase, chalk hills to the east; and the watershed between the Stour and Yeo valleys to the northwest (which generally follows close to the borders between North Dorset, South Somerset and West Dorset).
The River Stour flows out of the vale at Blandford Forum in the southeast, a town sandwiched between the Dorset Downs and Cranborne Chase.
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 River Stour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The River Stour is a substantial river which runs 96 km (59 miles) from south east Somerset and west Wiltshire through north Dorset and the Blackmore Vale into east Dorset, the eastern fringe of Bournemouth and Christchurch where it meets the Hampshire Avon and empties into the sea at Mudeford.
The Stour is still a stronghold of White-legged damsel fly and Scarce Chaser Dragonfly and is seeing the return of the otter after years of persecution and removal of bankside cover.
Between 1998 and 2001 the Stour was the focus of Confluence, a project run by Common Ground helping and encouraging local people to make their own new music in celebration of the river and its tributaries, springs, wells, flora and fauna.
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 STOUR - Online Information article about STOUR
RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (c.
The larger branch is joined in the levels by the Little Stour from the south.
Its length is about 40 m., its fall from Ashford 150 ft., and its drainage area 370 sq.
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 River West Stour
The River West Stour is one of the source rivers of the River Stour, Kent.
It rises at Lenham[?] near Maidstone and joins with the River East Stour at Ashford to become the River Great Stour.
The Great Stour then joins the River Little Stour to become the River Stour in Kent.
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 River Stour, Suffolk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The River Stour is a river in East Anglia, England.
RSPB Stour Estuary is a nature reserve managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
The River Stour Trust, a waterway restoration group, was set up in 1968 and has restored the Gasworks Cut and the 19th century Granary Building, now used as the Trust's Headquarters.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/river_stour__suffolk   (188 words)

  
 East Anglia
East Anglia is quite near London, close enough for day-trippers.
Foreigners probably do not visit East Anglia because their holiday time is limited, and they choose other regions that are better known.
The Pope intervened in 1249, giving the east end of the building to the monks and the west end to the town.
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 The Blackmore Vale - Rural Dorset
Longham is a linear village, with houses lining the road from the bridge over the River Stour to the pretty little church at the north end, where the parish abuts the town of Ferndown.
The statue of Eros in Picadilly Circus, London is a monument to the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, the ‘Philanthropic Earl’, and the arrow is aligned to this quaint East Dorset village.
To enter the village you cross the clear trout stream of the river Allen by means of a modern stone faced brick bridge, which sports the customary “transportation warning” issued by the County Clerk in days gone by.
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 CANTERBURY - Online Information article about CANTERBURY
BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf.
The north-west and south-west transepts are included in Chillenden's Perpendicular reconstruction; but east of these earlier work is met with.
chapel east of this is known as Anselm's tower.
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 River Stour, Kent -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The River Stour is a (A large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)) river in (A county in southeastern England on the English Channel; the first to be colonized by the Romans) Kent, (A division of the United Kingdom) England.
It is Kent's second longest river (after the (Click link for more info and facts about Medway) Medway) it is 21.5 miles long.
The Great Stour flows through (A town in Kent in southeastern England; site of the cathedral where Thomas a Becket was martyred in 1170; seat of the archbishop and primate of the Anglican Church) Canterbury and Plucks Gutter.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ri/river_stour,_kent.htm   (287 words)

  
 The Great Stour Project
Cooper, dyer, in Stour street, is a very great sufferer, by the waters breaking into his workshop, and damaging many articles.
The usually placid Stour turned in a night into a raging torrent, which burst the banks and flooded all the streets in the vicinity.
The whole Stour Valley was a vast lake of varying width.
www.naturegrid.org.uk /gtstour/pthorne/pt-mercury.html   (721 words)

  
 Journey Along A River - Overflowing Rivers - River Stour - Dorset - Flood Alleviation - Archive - Nespaper Articles ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
North Dorset planners may have decided to raise no objection to the National Rivers Authority proposal for a flood alleviation scheme at Blandford, but Blandford and District Civic Society is keeping up its opposition and is calling for a meeting with a senior NRA official.
The National Rivers Authority have applied to the North Dorset District Council for planning permission to build a five foot high wall across the bottom of Blandford as part of the flood alleviation scheme.
Dredge the river so that the water can flow freely and revert back to the days when messages were passed down from Cut Mill Marnhull right down to Christchurch to open all the sluice gates when flood water is expected.
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 The Parish of West Stour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
West Stour is a small parish and one of a collection of three Stour villages situated on the Stour River.
The parish is bound by Gillingham to the north, East Stour and Stour Provost to the east, Fifehead Magdalen to the south, and Kington Magna to the west.
The soil is sand and clay and the land is chiefly used as pasture.
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 East Stour - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
East Stour is a village on the River Stour between Gillingham and Sturminster Newton in the Blackmore Vale area of Dorset, England.
The village has a population of 548 (2001).
The village lies on the A30 road a mile east of West Stour.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/East_Stour   (105 words)

  
 The Stour
Variously known as The East Stour, The West Stour, The Kentish Stour and the Great Stour.
The river was made navigable around 1594 and again around 1695, having become un-navigable previously.
It is 19 miles from the fixed sluice at Fordwich to Pepperness where the river enters Pegwell Bay and thence the English Channel.
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 East Stour -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
There is also a (Click link for more info and facts about River East Stour) River East Stour.
The village has a ((statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn) population of 548 (2001).
The village lies on the (Click link for more info and facts about A30 road) A30 road a mile east of (Click link for more info and facts about West Stour) West Stour.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/E/Ea/East_Stour.htm   (79 words)

  
 River Stour Harbour Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
It has a number of sources; one rises in Postling (north of Hythe) as the East Stour and a second in Lenham (south west of Maidstone) as the West Stour, joining together at Ashford to form the Great Stour.
The Great Stour then flows in a north easterly direction through Canterbury and on to Plucks Gutter where it is joined by the Little Stour from the south to become the Stour.
The River Wantsum, all that is left of the Wantsum Channel, also joins it about here.
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 River Allen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The river is one of the 'twin-bournes', that give Wimborne Minster its name (the other being the Stour itself).
It is a tributary of the Stour, which rises near Monkton Up Wimborne in Dorset and flows for over ten miles, past the Minster church at Wimborne and into the Stour just to the south of the town.
According to the Environment Agency the salmon stock of the Stour catchment is in a precarious state.
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 The Great Stour Project
The Kentish Stour Catchment is the second largest in Kent, including the coastline from Herne Bay to Folkestone.   It rises at Lenham, near Maidstone, being joined by the East Stour at Ashford, before making its way through the Chalk of the North Downs towards Canterbury and the sea at Pegwell Bay.
The Environment Agency has a responsibility for the health and natural beauty of the river.  Public access to the river is limited over much of its length, although public rights of way run along the river bank through most of Canterbury.  The Stour Valley Walk follows the river valley for much of its course.
Fishing and boating activities are important in the lower tidal reaches of the river, with Richborough Port a small commercial centre near the mouth of the river.
www.naturegrid.org.uk /gtstour/dh-backinfo.html   (248 words)

  
 A Country Diary: East Kent
Part of a string of wetland pearls along the river, east and west of Canterbury, they are largely inaccessible at this time of year.
There is a footpath between the marshes and the river, but you would need thigh-length waders to use it at the moment.
This is a bird of mixed fortunes; once widespread, it declined during the 19th century, mainly due to wetland drainage, increased during the early 20th century, then was hit by the effects of 1950s pesticide use.
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 River Little Stour
The River Little Stour is one of the source rivers of the River Stour, Kent.
It joins with the River Great Stour (itself a confluence of the River East Stour and the River West Stour) to become the River Stour (Kent).
The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/li/Little_Stour.html   (61 words)

  
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On the 27 May 1998 TID 172 was steamed out of the mud berth on the top of the spring tide and taken a short distance up river to lay alongside the public quay at Mistley.
It was good to be steaming down the River Stour again and following the suggested small boat track out of Harwich Harbour, past Cork Sands, Roughs Tower and the South Shipwash Cardinal Buoy heading for the Southern North Sea.
Steaming into Harwich TID 172 continued up the river Orwell and tied up at Cliff Quay at 1650hrs 20 June to wait for the opening of the lock gates and pass into Ipswich Wet Dock to attend Maritime Ipswich on the Sunday.
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 River Stour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Boats on the East Anglian Stour with the church of Dedham in the background, John Constable, c.
The source rivers are: River East Stour, River West Stour, River Great Stour, River Little Stour.
This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/River_Stour   (109 words)

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