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  wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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
(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.
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.
The larger branch is joined in the levels by the Little Stour from the south.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/ST/STOUR.htm   (235 words)

  
 River Stour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Boats on the East Anglian Stour with the church of Dedham in the background, John Constable, c.
Stour is the name of several rivers in England:
The source rivers are: River East Stour, River West Stour, River Great Stour, River Little Stour.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/River_Stour   (109 words)

  
 The River Flows By
It was through the river and its systems of canals and locks that the people in the valley were able to sustain themselves.
The river was very important; it was the central unifying factor in the valley community.
It is only natural that he developed a love for the river and the sky and chose them as the main elements in most of his paintings.
www.csuchico.edu /art/contrapposto/Contrapposto97/Pages/DanEvans.html   (779 words)

  
 DOWNS - LoveToKnow Article on DOWNS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The rivers flowing through these gaps run northward, and, except in the extreme east, are members of the Thames basin.
The next river to break through the main line is the Darent, but here another lateral depression, watered by the headstreams of that river, marks off the Ragston.e Ridge, southof Sevenoaks, reaching 8ooft.
The valley of the Little Stour, however, offers a well-marked pass followed by the FolkestoneCanterbury railway, and the North Downs finally fall to the sea in the grand white cliffs between Dover and Folkestone.
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 Little Stour Books
Stourmouth seems oddly named now that the River Stour is several miles upstream at Pegwell Bay.
However, in the days when the village was named, this was indeed where the river met the sea.
The Stour flowed into the Wantsum Channel which separated the Isle of Thanet from the rest of Kent.
www.littlestourbooks.com   (148 words)

  
 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 upper reaches of the Little Stour are known as The Nailbourne, a stream which only runs after an extended period of rainfall.
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)

  
 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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blackmore_Vale   (258 words)

  
 River Stour Harbour Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The River Stour is Kent's second longest and most underrated river.
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)

  
 STOUR - Online Information article about STOUR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (c.
MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat.
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)

  
 Welcome to Martin James Fishing
The river fly decline is revealed as a national problem, and not just one of the chalk streams.
This is not surprising given the well-evidenced declines in terrestrial insects extending across the country as a whole, with their damaging impact upon numbers of insect eating birds and other wildlife.
Dr. Cyril Bennett, a river fly expert with the John Spedan Lewis Trust for the Advancement of Natural Sciences, and member of the Riverfly Interest Group says, "the decline may not be one single problem across the whole country.
www.bfinternet.co.uk /cgi-bin/news/news.cgi?article=380&vf=true&site=mjfishing   (595 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)

  
 Bat Conservation
Many natural weirs are formed by erosion or a tree falling into the river, this is part of the natural dynamics of a river.
Man made structures have had a much greater impact, with the advent of farming and later the agricultural revolution, rivers were dammed and controlled to harness their immense power for our own benefit.
The Kentish Stour Countryside Project has been directly involved in the construction of fish weirs and deflectors along the River Stour and more weirs are planned for this year.
www.kentishstour.org.uk /weirs...artic.htm   (392 words)

  
 Events in the Stour catchment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Thomas Hardy in baptising the middle run of the River Stour the Vale of the Little Dairies, acknowledged, through the wonderful cheeses and butter for which the place was famous, the importance of the prime grassland this soggy place can support.
Stour Descent On the first Sunday in December, local canoe enthusiasts hold their annual downstream race, the Stour Descent.
The Stour Descent has been an annual event since the early 1980s, and in recent years it has been organised by the Stour Valley Canoe Club.
www.england-in-particular.info /stourevent.html   (723 words)

  
 The 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.
*It is at the Junction of the Little Stour and the River Great Stour that the river changes it's name to the Kentish Stour and meanders it's way across the Minster Flats, through Sandwich and out to the sea.
homepages.rya-online.net /groveferrybc/the_stour.htm   (196 words)

  
 River Stour (Kent)
The River Stour Trust : The Trust, a registered charity, was formed in 1968 to protect the right of navigation on the River Stour (Suffolk).
Was a river navigation with 12 locks and 4 half locks between Stourbridge and Kidderminster.
Various schemes for navigations around the River Tees none of which were authorised or built.
easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/River-Stour-Kent.html   (475 words)

  
 Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory
Upper Stour (14km.sq.): The Stour Valley from Sturry upstream to Ashford.
Little Stour (7km.sq.): The Little Stour and Nailbourne Valley from Preston upstream to Bishopbourne.
The walk is from Sandwich Quay along the river past the small complex of reed beds to Black Sluice, then through farmland and grass duneland to St George's golf course and back along the raised Green wall path to Sandwich, with good hedgerows and mature trees alongside.
www.sbbo.co.uk /lowlands05.htm   (2066 words)

  
 The Lower Stour - Rural Dorset
Located on the banks of the River Stour, Blandford Forum is unique in Dorset for its uniform Georgian architecture, particularly its stunning marketplace and parish church.
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.
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.
www.ruraldorset.com /area/a2z.asp?ID=64   (3747 words)

  
 Papa Stour in the Shetland Island Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Papa Stour is located at the southern tip of St. Magnus Bay, on the west coast of Shetland.
The reefs of Papa Stour are rocky marine areas which provide a habitat for a variety of biological communities.
The intertidal reefs are composed mainly of boulder and rock, whilst the subtidal reefs tend to be dominated in the shallows by attached kelp communities, and in the deeper areas by faunal turfs and algal crusts.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/all_things_scottish/25102   (330 words)

  
 Blyth Navigation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The blame was immediately (and almost certainly wrongly) passed to the river and the restoration project lost the backing of both the local council and the National River Authority (now the Environment Agency).
The entrance to the river is relatively narrow as it runs between Reydon and Tinker's marshes.
After the first 2 miles the river widens out into a large saltings pool.This can be seen from the A12 bridge which crosses the river at Blythburgh (TM452755) some 4 miles upstream from the river's mouth.
www.btinternet.com /~canals/canals/blythnavigation.htm   (675 words)

  
 Environment Agency - Stour CAMS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The two major geological water sources (aquifers) to feed the Stour are the Lower Greensand and most significantly, the Chalk.
As the Stour is largely spring fed, changes in groundwater level affect river flow.
The Stour has demonstrated its dynamic character in recent years with episodes of both extreme low flows and severe flooding.
www.environment-agency.gov.uk /subjects/waterres/564321/309477/309483/310171   (358 words)

  
 The Stour in Bournemouth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Throughout this part of its course the river tends to be wide and sluggish and is bordered by typical bankside trees such as willows and alder.
The river and its banks and the woodland and hedgerow habitats are particularly important as nesting and feeding areas.
There is little doubt that a major factor in the loss of the water vole from this area has been predation by mink.
www.england-in-particular.info /stourbourn.html   (858 words)

  
 River Little Ouse -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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.
The village with the curious name of Blo Norton owes this name to the river - it was earlier known as Norton Bell-'eau, from being situated near this 'fair stream'.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ri/river_little_ouse.htm   (263 words)

  
 Stourmouth in Kent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The rivers teemed with otters, water voles, and crayfish.
The floodplain of the Stour Valley held reedbeds, and marshy grasslands where early spider orchids, Kentish milkwort and meadow clary flourished.
Pluck's Gutter, in the northern extremities of the parish of Stourmouth at the point where the present-day road crosses the river Stour, is now a bridge and not the ferry of long ago.
www.cyberus.ca /~huppert/stourmouth1.html   (1222 words)

  
 floods
Flooding at Littlebourne on the Little Stour River, November 2000.
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.
www.econet.org.uk /weather/floods.html   (742 words)

  
 Roadbridge
Until the 17th century Bures was predominately a Suffolk village with very little housing on the Hamlet side.
The majority of the framework was cast at a foundry in London and somehow transported to Bures for construction.
The source of The River Stour rises at Carlton near Haverhill and continues through Clare, Sudbury, Bures, Nayland, Stratford, Dedham, Flatford onward to Manningtree where it becomes tidal at Cattawade Bridge.
www.bures-online.co.uk /roadbridge/roadbridge.htm   (770 words)

  
 The Benefits of Sustainable River Flows   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The latter category also relates to non-use benefits, where these are values that are not related to current direct or indirect use of the environment and include option values (for use of the river in the future), bequest values (preserving the river for future generations) and existence values (preserving the river in its own right).
It is necessary, therefore, to consider the characteristics of each river and its catchment when assessing the benefits.
Asking these questions allows the benefit assessment to be tailored so that it reflects the characteristics of the river, its catchment and the extent and duration of the low flow problems.
www.rpaltd.co.uk /ourwork/project-lowflow.htm   (516 words)

  
 River_Stour,_Kent
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.tuxedo-shop.com /search.php?title=River_Stour,_Kent   (138 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.
The weir is a sloping affair with a walled-in chute in the centre.
The river drops over a number of safe 'mini-weirs' in the next mile to the point where it passes under a large dual carriageway bridge.
www.ukriversguidebook.co.uk /stour.htm   (1373 words)

  
 Periodic Review of Electoral Arrangements   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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)

  
 ipedia.com: Rivers of the United Kingdom Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The list of Rivers of the United Kingdom is a link page for the rivers of the United Kingdom River Pool River Quaggy River Mole River Wey River Kennet River Churn River Cole River Windrush River Cherw...
The list of Rivers of the United Kingdom is a link page for the rivers of the United Kingdom (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, organised geographically, taken anti-clockwise, from Land's End.
For simplicity, they are divided here by the nation in which the mouth of the river can be found, and sea into which it flows.
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