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	Encyclopedia: River Little Ouse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The River Wissey is a river in the east of England.
		The River Ivel is a river in the east of England.
		The River Nene is a river in the east of England.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/River-Little-Ouse (1169 words)

	River Little Ouse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The most distinctive feature of the headwaters of the Little Ouse and the Waveney is the valley in which they flow; the Little Ouse westwards and the Waveney, eastwards.
		In the Fens and Norfolk Marshland, it was quite possible for the course of a river to change as the result of a flooding episode so it is not surprising to find that the Great Ouse used to enter The Wash by way of the Old Croft River, the Wellstream and Wisbech (the Ouse beach).
		The 17th century drainers under Cornelius Vermuyden dug the Old Bedford River between the Great Ouse at Earith and what had hitherto been the Little Ouse at Denver.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/River_Little_Ouse (506 words)

	ouse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ouse is the name of more than one river in Great Britain:
		River Little Ouse, a tributary of the River Great Ouse
		This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /ouse.html (128 words)

	River Great Ouse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is 150 miles (240 km) long which makes it the major navigation in East Anglia, and the fifth-longest river in the United Kingdom.
		The lower reaches of the Great Ouse are also known as "Old West River" and "the Ely Ouse".
		The river has several sources close to the villages of Syresham and Sulgrave in Northamptonshire.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/River_Great_Ouse (235 words)

	great ouse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The River Great Ouse is a river in the east of England.
		The Environment Agency is the navigation authority and it tries to attract more boaters to the river.
		The Ouse Washes are an internationally important area for wildlife.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Great_Ouse.html (186 words)

	Encyclopedia: River Great Ouse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tributaries of the River Great Ouse: A tributary (or affluent or confluent) is a contributory stream, a river that does not reach the sea, but joins another major river (a parent river), to which it contributes its waters, swelling its discharge.
		The New Bedford River, also known as the Hundred Foot Drain because of the distance between the tops of the two embankments on either side of the river, is a tributary of the River Great Ouse in the Fens of Cambridgeshire, England.
		RSPB Ouse Washes is a nature reserve in the Fens of Cambridgeshire, England, managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds at Welches Dam.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/River-Great-Ouse (1698 words)

	Encyclopedia: Wisbech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the 17th century, the local inhabitants became known as the "Fen Tigers" because of their resistance to the draining of the fens, but the project turned Wisbech into a wealthy port handling agricultural produce.
		At this time Wisbech was on the estuary of the River Ouse, but silting caused the coastline to move north, and the River Nene was diverted to serve the town.
		Ouse is the name of more than one river in Great Britain: River Ouse, Yorkshire River Great Ouse in East Anglia River Little Ouse, a tributary of the River Great Ouse River Ouse, Sussex in East Sussex There is also a town named Ouse: Ouse, Tasmania, Australia See also Rivers...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Wisbech (1080 words)

	River Little Ouse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In fact, the river was described as being "mismanaged and neglected" during this period.
		A spokesman for the Environment Agency (National Rivers Authority renamed) said the length of the lock had been determined after a survey which "suggested" that 90% of the boats on the river were less than 40 feet long.
		Past the junction the River Little Ouse swings north of east, travelling for about 4 miles to the B1112 which is carried across the river by Wilton bridge.
	www.canals.btinternet.co.uk /canals/littleouse.htm (2829 words)

	Brandon
		The church is a little out of the village on the south-west, and is a good structure.
		Continuous strata of the finest flint occur in the chalk near the town, and are dug and manufactured into gun-flints, a branch of industry which in 1831 gave employment to 60 men.
		Considerable trade is carried on in corn, malt, coal, timber, and other goods, favoured by the navigation of the Little Ouse or Brandon river, which passes on the north side of the village.
	www.oldtowns.co.uk /Suffolk/brandon.htm (201 words)

	A late Saxon and early medieval site at Mill Lane, Thetford
		Thetford lies at the confluence of the rivers Little Ouse and Thet, at a point where both are fordable and navigable, allowing access to the Fens and the Wash to the west and the North Sea to the east.
		The town lying to the south of the river is unusual archaeologically in that the settlement which developed there in the 10th and 11th centuries was practically abandoned by the 12th century.
		Examination of river sediments is expected to indicate the extent of exploitation and use of the river, which limited the extent of the settlement to the north-east.
	www.eng-h.gov.uk /archcom/projects/summarys/html97_8/1820.htm (5664 words)

	Tidal River Ouse
		The ears of James I himself were assailed, on Ouse Bridge in 1617, by the voice of the River: a costumed figure informed the monarch that his money was urgently required to return the city to her mediaeval glory in the matter of river trade.
		Silting of the river, of course, was not the only problem: it was compounded by the urgent need of the merchants of York to compete more effectively in larger vessels.
		The fastest-moving water is at the surface of the river while the speed of the current reduces as the bed is approached.
	www.battleoffulford.org.uk /ev_tidal_ouse.htm (3669 words)

	River, Great Ouse Route (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Half way around the river bend is a lock which links the current navigable river to the narrow-looking, bendy, inner-course, which could well have been the original line of the river around the lake, replaced by the sweeping bend which was itself later replaced by the "New Cut" to the north of the lake.
		The river is extremely easy to follow by car from Ely to Denver Sluice as there is always at least one road clinging to one of the banks.
		In the Middle Ages the rivers Great Ouse and Cam had headed off to the north west a little further upstream and the water which is now the River Great Ouse to the north of Denver Sluice was once nothing more than a small stream.
	www.canals.btinternet.co.uk /canals/greatouseroute.htm (2436 words)

	River Lark navigation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The River Lark was once navigable all the way to Bury St. Edmunds, a winding course of around 25 miles.
		It is thought that the River Lark was used by the Romans to carry clunch from pits around Isleham.
		Whatever happened, it is certain that the river was unnavigable by the end of the century.
	www.btinternet.com /~canals/canals/larkriver.htm (2202 words)

	River Great Ouse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The locks from Brownshill to Eaton Scocon were rebuilt in the 1930s when this part of the river was restored by the newly formed Great Ouse Catchment Board.
		Prior to the 1950s the river below Denver was kept clear by the flow from the Great Ouse but since then the relief channel has been built to divert these waters and the bed of the river has risen by about a metre.
		A 3 mile navigation from the junction with the Old Bedford River and the Forty Foot River, at Welches Dam, to Mepal Pumping Station.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/River-Great-Ouse.html (673 words)

	Ouse on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Great Ouse flows generally NE past Bedford and Ely to the Wash near King's Lynn, Norfolk, and drains the E Midlands and the W Fens.
		All of its chief tributaries rise in the Pennines.
		Floods crisis: The worst floods for 400 years; York's River Ouse 2 inches away from bursting barrier.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/O/Ouse.asp (390 words)

	Definition of river ouse, yorkshire
		1: The '''River Ouse''' is a [[river]] in the [[county]] of [[East Sussex]] in [[Engla...
		5:...r [[Virginia Woolf]] drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941, near the village of [[Rodmell]].
		The area between the rivers is 20 miles long and almost 1 mile wide and acts...
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	River Little Ouse
		The River Little Ouse is a river in the east of England.
		It is a tributary of the River Great Ouse.
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ri/River_Little_Ouse.html (41 words)

	Thetford Forest Archaeology - Reports Part Four (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Water - Little Ouse River 2.7 km, but an extinct fenside lake stood c.500 metres to the west.
		The enclosure is situated in Thetford Warren, 225 metres away from the Little Ouse River, and adjacent to a public-right-of-way.
		This represents a survey of a linear earthwork, that originally curved around for 700 metres, enclosing an area of gravel terrace and valley bottom peat fen adjacent to the Little Ouse River.
	www.aoqv41.dsl.pipex.com /rep4.htm (1335 words)

	River Great Ouse - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		is a river in the east of England.
		The Great Ouse at St Neots It flows through Bedford, St_Neots, Godmanchester, Huntingdon, St Ives, the cathedral city of Ely, Littleport, Downham_Market and flows into The_Wash at King's_Lynn.
		The Environment_Agency is the navigation authority and it tries to attract more boaters to the river.
	www.indexsuche.com /River_Great_Ouse.html (148 words)

	Norfolk
		It is so nearly surrounded by its marine and river boundaries as to be almost an island.
		Its outline is somewhat ellipsoidal, but suffers indentation by the Wash. Its greatest length from E to W is 60 miles; its greatest breadth from N to S is 40 miles; its mean breadth is about 29 miles; and its circuit is about 200 miles.
		The inland commerce, however, through the medium of the Ouse and its associated rivers and canals, is considerable, and embraces a great variety of commodities.
	www.uk-genealogy.org.uk /gazetteer/england/Norfolk (2352 words)

	Monday, August 27, 2001
		The crew of the Stars and Stripes powers the vessel along the Little Ouse River Sunday at Hockwold, England.
		Fortunately, the fight was all in good fun, a raft race on the Little Ouse River in Hockwold, where several American families share the town of ancient stone houses and crooked streets with about 1,500 British residents.
		No sooner had the first paddle been dipped in the slow-moving Ouse than flour bombs and eggs were launched.
	www.stripes.com /01/aug01/ed082701k.html (533 words)

	Ouse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The cattle, which mauritias and rhopalas, were now collected in herds; and these free, rather than wild, without settled habitations, and disdaining though of Spanish breed, like those of the cold table-lands of Quito, attacked or pursued, as we often were in our excursions on the back of more wild, and food less abundant.
		As we approached Calabozo, we saw They are called matacani; their flesh is good; they are a little fawn-colour, spotted with white.html">white.
		Their horns appear to me to have herds of thirty or forty we observed several that were entirely white.
	www.city-search.org /ou/ouse.html (331 words)

	The River Great Ouse
		There are tables and chairs by the river and a large car park.
		The long term moorings are amongst the cheapest on the Great Ouse, and the proprietor is reported as being "very good" to these customers and "knowing about diesel engines".
		The Borough Council and Chamber of Commerce in Lynn both support the creation of a new marina at the mouth of the Nar, regenerating the old fishing harbour area of Boal Quay.
	www.waterwaysguides.co.uk /updates/gtouse.htm (1559 words)

	River Great Ouse: Waterscape.com
		The River Great Ouse weaves through the flat landscape of East Anglia, draining the Fens and providing a home for hundreds of species.
		The Great Ouse alone runs for 75 miles, but together with its tributaries, the River Cam, Lark, Little Ouse and Wissey, provides approximately 140 miles of navigable waterway.
		Consequently the land around the Great Ouse now lies several feet below that of five centuries ago and is still shrinking, which in places has resulted in subsidence and an almost otherworldly landscape.
	www.waterscape.com /River_Great_Ouse (185 words)

	River Little Ouse -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Little Ouse is a river in the east of (A division of the United Kingdom) England, a (A branch that flows into the main stream) tributary of the (Click link for more info and facts about River Great Ouse) River Great Ouse.
		For much of its length it defines the boundary between (Port city located in southeastern Virginia on the Elizabeth River at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay; headquarters of the Atlantic fleet of the United States Navy) Norfolk and (Click link for more info and facts about Suffolk) Suffolk.
		It rises east of Thelnetham, very close to the source of the (Click link for more info and facts about River Waveney) River Waveney - which flows eastwards while the Little Ouse flows west.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ri/river_little_ouse.htm (263 words)

	Practical Motorhome - Great escapes - Trail 3
		Like much of Norfolk, the area known as the Brecks is covered in sandy soil which for many years was the basis of heathland created by prehistoric farmers.
		Continue along the river bank for 1.5 miles until you come across a bridge; turn right over it, into Santon Downham.
		Turn right at the next junction, then follow the path along the river bank past a fishing pond on your left and under the bridge.
	www.practicalmotorhome.com /greatarchive/aug02trail2.html (921 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The point where the Little Ouse river joins the Great Ouse.
		This is Brandon Creek, with the A10 road going over a bridge over the Little Ouse river.
		The little Ouse river that goes to the left leaving the Great Ouse is the bountery between Norfolk and Cambridgeshire.
	home.freeuk.net /southerytour/creek.htm (173 words)

	Brandon Heritage Project - 1874 White's Suffolk Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		BRANDON, a well-built market town, noted for gun-flints, whiting, rabbit-skins, and fur, is pleasantly situated on the Little Ouse river, which is navgable for barges, and is crossed by a good bridge, at the junction of roads from Lynn and Swaffham.
		It is 6 miles W.N.W of and in the Union and County Court district of Thetford, 9 miles N.N.E. of Mildenhall, 16 miles N. by W. of Bury St. Edmunds, and 78 miles N.N.E. of London.
		Brandon Court Lodge, a little south of Brandon Park, is the pleasant seat of Hy.
	www.brandon-heritage.co.uk /whites74.html (1781 words)

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