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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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	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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/River_West_Stour (125 words)

	Encyclopedia: River Stour, Kent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The source of a river, usually a lake or a spring, is the farthest point of a river from its estuary or confluence with another river.
		The River East Stour is one of the sources of the River Stour in Kent.
		Historically, the River Stour's mouth was at Stourmouth, near Preston, Kent where it emptied into the Wantsum Channel, dividing mainland Kent from the Isle of Thanet.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/River-Stour,-Kent (672 words)

	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.
		Some parts of the river in Ashford flood (heavy rainfall) and have made walkways and roads unusable in the past.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/River_Stour,_Kent (186 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Floods warnings: region by region
		Norfolk, Suffolk: The River Waveney from Diss to Bungay
		Gloucestershire: River Severn from Tewkesbury to upstream of Gloucester
		Warwickshire: River Avon from Stratford to upstream of Evesham
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/2622097.stm (939 words)

	GREAT CHART
		It was here in a clearing between the road and the River Stour, and at the very edge of the inhospitable forest, that the settlement of Great Chart began.
		He confiscated Great Chart and its lands from the priory but soon reinstated them to his new Protestant Dean and Chapter in whose administration they remained until Victorian times (though in a map of the area from 1621 the lands are still attributed to 'Christ Churche').
		Great Chart was a large prosperous settlement by now (even noted as a 'town' by one historian), and it backed onto the dense Wealden forest.
	gtchart.tripod.com /greatchart (2272 words)

	STOUR - LoveToKnow Article on STOUR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		(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.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/ST/STOUR.htm (235 words)

	STOUR - Online Information article about STOUR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /STE_SUS/STOUR.html (422 words)

	AllRefer.com - Severn, river, Great Britain (British And Irish Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Severn, river, Great Britain, British And Irish Physical Geography
		Sabrina, one of the principal rivers of Great Britain, c.200 mi (320 km) long, rising on Plinlimmon Mt., W Wales, and flowing NE and E to Shrewsbury, W England, and from there SE, S, and SW : through an estuary : to the Bristol Channel.
		It is connected by canal with the Thames, Mersey, Trent, and other rivers.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/SevrnUK.html (264 words)

	Great Bradley, Suffolk River Stour and Ely Ouse Essex Water Transfer Scheme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Great Bradley and the River Stour in Suffolk
		The River Stour rises at about 380' above sea level and is 146' above sea level at Clare, 82' at Sudbury, 40' at Nayland, 27' at Stratford St. Mary and 13' at Flatford.
		This uses pumping stations along the river to abstract water from the chalk underground and put it into the river to be taken to the Essex reservoirs.
	www.great-bradley.suffolk.gov.uk /gb%20village/riverstour.htm (1141 words)

	Search Results for stour - Encyclopædia Britannica
		river, eastern England, with a length of 47 miles (76 km).
		It is situated along the River Stour and the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal.
		It lies at the confluence of the Rivers Stour and Avon and adjoins the English Channel resort of...
	www.britannica.com /search?query=stour&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (309 words)

	Stodmarsh
		The earliest recorded use of the land in the area was by the Augustinian monks who dug ditches to bring the river floodwater onto the meadows which were grazed mainly by horses.
		Reed‑beds then developed, encroaching from the river banks to cover the wetter areas which were ideal for their growth.
		The surface is 2 metres wide and made of compacted stone with some vehicle ruts for 1500 metres changing to a grassy, uneven river bank at the Great Stour.
	www.medway-rspb.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /stodmarsh.htm (1761 words)

	History by Waterway from River Stour (Kent) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He was employed to survey the river with a view to making some improvements in the navigation but produced a more radical plan than had been expected.
		He suggested that the shallow meandering river between Sandwich and the sea should be replaced by a new cut and a new harbour be built near Sandown Castle at a cost of £45,777.
		The Valley of the Stour From Weston Green to Harwich by N G Rogers, Published by Ian Henry Publications Ltd - An illustrated history and topography of this valley.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/History24.html (2770 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.
	homepages.rya-online.net /groveferrybc/the_stour.htm (196 words)

	River Stour Harbour Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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.
	www.btinternet.com /~kentnet/sailkent/guides/stour.html (175 words)

	River Stour, Kent -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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)

	Periodic Review of Electoral Arrangements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is geographically well-shaped with the river Great Stour forming a natural boundary to the south.
		The ancient town of Fordwich, although part of Sturry South district ward, lies mainly to the south of the Great Stour and is therefore completely separate from Sturry in both community and geographical terms.
		For this reason, Fordwich has been included in the county electoral division to the south of the river, together with the Barton, Little Stour and North Nailbourne wards and the Adisham and Womenswold parishes from the Barham Downs ward.
	www.kent.gov.uk /cs/electoral/proposalscanterbury.html (666 words)

	River Cale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ekwall, in his book English River Names suggests its derivation as 'gwyn' meaning white and 'Cawel' which might mean a shower or hollow or stem or channel from the Welsh, Cornish, Greek or Sanskrit.
		Hydrogen peroxide was pumped into the river in half a dozen places between Cutt Mill and Colber Bridge to raise the oxygen levels.
		This was one of 14 major pollution accidents to have occurred countrywide in the summer of 2000, exasperating the Environment Agency, anglers and conservationists.
	www.england-in-particular.info /cale.html (723 words)

	RIVER STOUR
		The River Stour is a river in Suffolk, 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.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/RIVER+STOUR (249 words)

	River Great Stour
		The River Great Stour is one of the source rivers of the River Stour, Kent, formed when the River East Stour and the River West Stour join at Ashford.
		The Great Stour joins with the River Little Stour to become the River Stour (Kent).
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ri/River_Great_Stour.html (64 words)

	Canterbury Environmental Education Centre Home Page
		Up until the 1930's the landuse of the site was largely water meadow, similar to that still present adjacent to the River Great Stour at Whitehall Meadows local nature reserve approximately 1km upstream of Canterbury city centre.
		However it was river bourne material from an earlier age that was to lead to the next stage in the site's landuse history.
		The Broad Oak Nature Reserve quarry was part of this complex, with extracted gravel transported by bridge across the Great Stour to the washing and storage facilities shown in the photographs.
	www.econet.org.uk /history.html (823 words)

	Home Page
		This tour traces the course of the River Stour from Canterbury to the ancient Cinque Port of Sandwich.
		The route follows the valley of the River Stour to the picturesque village of Chilham and then through orchards to the North Kent coast and the port of Whitstable.
		It is said she was describing the River Nailbourne, a chalk stream which flows through the Elham Valley and eventually joins the Little Stour.
	www.downlandcycles.co.uk /cycleRoutes.htm (2027 words)

	Conservation in Great Chart
		The Great River Stour runs through this historic parkland and the KSCP has been involved in many projects over the years.
		In 2000, volunteers helped to plant up part of the river with aquatic plants, and generally improved an area which was suffering from erosion and poaching by cattle.
		Fencing of the river took place which was grant aided by the KSCP and Environment Agency in order to create more diverse habitat.
	www.kentishstour.org.uk /greatchart.htm (254 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Flooding fears in South East
		People living near the River Ouse, in East Sussex, between Barcombe Cross and Lewes have been warned of an increased risk of flooding.
		And three stretches of the Cuckmere River around Hellingly and Berwick are also on high alert after two inches of rainfall.
		In Kent there is a Flood Watch on the Great Stour between Ashford and Fordwich.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/england/3352223.stm (279 words)

	Stourpaine, Dorset, England
		Where the little river Ewerne meets the Stour, beneath the great hill called Hod, is Stourpaine.
		The Great Dorset Steam Fair, now held at Tarrant Hinton, had its beginnings at Stourpaine.
		In 1969 Michael Oliver, John Pocock, Ted Hine, Charles Romanes and Ingram Spencer decided to build a Rick at Stourpaine Bushes and thrash 5 acres of wheat by steam for the fun of it.
	www.thedorsetpage.com /locations/place/S310.htm (283 words)

	River Stour
		The River Stour, where navigable, is treated much the same way as a public highway and therefore you should need no consent to travel upon it.
		For access to the river Longham was easy enough, at Christchurch you can enter at the public slipway near the rowing club at christchurch quay, by Iford bridge, or a better option is the quieter public slipway by the council offices on bridge street, just off Chrischurch highstreet.
		The weir is a sloping affair with a walled-in chute in the centre.
	www.ukriversguidebook.co.uk /stour.htm (1595 words)

	Stourhead \| Museum/Attraction Review \| Wiltshire and Somerset \| Frommers.com
		Marble busts of Marcus Aurelius and Alexander the Great can be seen in the niches on the wall.
		The springs of the Stour flow through the cold bath where a lead copy of the sleeping Ariadne lies.
		In a cave beyond her, the white lead statue of the River God is seen dispensing justice to the waves and nymphs who inhabit his stream.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/wiltshireandsomerset/A25382.html (855 words)

	River Nar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Originally the river was navigable to Linfield and had 18 locks, none now navigable.
		Tidal river giving access to the port of Preston (Lancs) and having the River Douglas as a tributary, thus giving access to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Rufford Branch.
		An act for Improving the navigation of the river was passed in 1806.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/River-Nar.html (571 words)

	ENGLISH NATURE - Special Sites
		The reserve is on the Great Stour river south of, and almost immediately adjacent to, the A28, midway between Canterbury and Margate.
		Stodmarsh is on the path of the Stour Valley Walk and on Route 1 of the Sustrans National Cycle Network.
		One path follows the Great Stour river for much of its length within the reserve area.
	www.english-nature.org.uk /special/nnr/nnr_details.asp?nnr_name=&C=23&Habitat=0&natural_area=&local_team=0&spotlight_reserve=0&X=&NNR_ID=147 (539 words)

	floods (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the UK the Environment Agency (previously the National Rivers Authority), is in charge of monitoring river and lake levels and making flood warnings when necessary.
		However, a large river system is harder to understand as there are many smaller streams involved, which are not monitored.
		The rivers of Kent and Sussex already had very high water levels because of significant rainfall.
	www.econet.org.uk /weather/floods.html (742 words)

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