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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: River Rother (Western)
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 Hampshire County Council
The views of the National Rivers Authority (Southern Region) are awaited.
The applicant should also install a satisfactory drainage system to facilitate the drainage of the land from the west of the site to the River Rother.
I note the concerns of the residents of Ham Barn relating to alleged breaches of conditions and can assure them that the site will continue to be monitored during the period of restoration.
www.hants.gov.uk /scrmxn/c3917.html   (812 words)

  
 River Rother - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
River Rother (Eastern) in Kent and East Sussex
River Rother (Western) in Hampshire and West Sussex
River Rother, South Yorkshire (with its source in Derbyshire)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/River_Rother   (92 words)

  
 KENT (COUNTY) - LoveToKnow Article on KENT (COUNTY)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
In the north-west the administrative county of London encroaches upon the ancient county of Kent, the area of which is 1554-7 sq.
The county is roughly triangular in form, London lying at the apex of the western angle, the North Foreland at that of the eastern and Dungeness at that of the southern.
Within historic times much of this marsh was covered by the sea, and the valley of the river Rother, which forms part of the boundary of Kent with Sussex, entering the sea at Rye harbour, was represented by a tidal estuary for a considerable distance inland.
85.1911encyclopedia.org /K/KE/KENT_COUNTY_.htm   (5470 words)

  
 THE VALLEY OF THE ROTHER - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
It is the valley of the River Rother; the sacred and fruitful river between the downs and the weald.
The Rother into which the foreigners sailed for so many hundred years, the River of the Marshes, the river on which stands Rye; the easy Rother along whose deep meadows are the sloping kilns, the bright-tilted towns and the steep roads; the red Rother that is fed by streams from the ironstone.
But it is not this Rother that I am telling of, though I would love to tell of it also—as indeed I would love to tell at length of all the rivers of Sussex—the Brede, the Ouse, the Adur, the Cuckmere; all the streams that cut the chalk hills.
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 River Hamble -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
River Hamble -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
The River Hamble is a (A large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)) river in the (A region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government) county of (A county of southern England on the English Channel) Hampshire, (A division of the United Kingdom) England.
(additional info and facts about Rivers of the United Kingdom) Rivers of the United Kingdom
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ri/river_hamble.htm   (128 words)

  
 MIDHURST - LoveToKnow Article on MIDHURST   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
of Chichester by the London, Brighton and South Coast railway; served also by the London and South Western railway.
It is pleasantly situated on slightly rising ground near the river Rother.
The town retains several picturesque old houses, and in the vicinity, by the river, are the ruins of the 16th century mansion of Cowdray, burnt down in 1793.
www.87.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MI/MIDHURST.htm   (403 words)

  
 Rotherlands Management Plan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The land along the River Rother and Tilmore Brook in the ownership of Petersfield Town Council is of considerable local ecological interest.
Today the land (known as the Rother Lands) comprises a semi-wilderness area of unmanaged rank grassland, scrub, woodland, wetland and river bank that is rapidly declining in ecological interest and used primarily for dog walking and general exercise.
The Tilmore Brook, a tributary of the Rother
www.eggcustard.demon.co.uk /plans.html   (1871 words)

  
 River In South England - Great Web Sites about the Wonderful Country of England!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The River Rother is a river in the northern midlands of England, after which the town of Rotherham and the Rother Valley constituency are named.
River in South Kingstown, Rhode Island is 7.5 miles long, and changes from fresh to salt as it flows through the historic New England...
The River Dearne is a river in South Yorkshire, England.
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 ipedia.com: Oxford Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
In the 19th century the controversy surrounding the Oxford Movement in the Anglican Church drew attention to the city as a focus of theological thought.
The Oxford Canal connects to the River Thames at Oxford.
As well as several famous institutions (such as the Ashmolean Museum, the Pitt Rivers Museum and the Bodleian Library), the town centre is home to Carfax Tower and a historical themed ride, The Oxford Story.
www.ipedia.com /oxford.html   (839 words)

  
 Appendix A-Ecological Subregions of the United States
Rexroad, C.B.; Powell, R.L. The falls of the Ohio River, Indiana and Kentucky.
Management of western forests and grasslands for nongame birds: Proceedings of the workshop; 1980 February 11-14; Salt Lake City, UT. Gen.
Rawlings, M.S.; Neel, L.A. Wildlife and wildlife habitats associated with the Humboldt River and its tributaries.
www.fs.fed.us /land/pubs/ecoregions/appa.html   (7708 words)

  
 Changes in Rye Bay
The reduced scouring of the tides caused by the Damme on the River Brede was causing the silting of the port of New Winchelsea.
Early in the century the Rother levels 1200ha were described as deeply drowned see and 800ha were summer lands and in 1609 the Commission for the Upper Levels of the Rother set up to draining the deeply drowned land.
The Rother channel to the north of the Isle of Oxney was useless and all of the river was directed to the outfall at Scots Float sluice where it is today.
www.yates.clara.net /changes.html   (9263 words)

  
 House of Commons Hansard Debates for 13 Mar 1989
But it is the western section of the constituency, where the Dronfield green belt separates Dronfield from Sheffield and will presumably come to be known as the fl belt, which will cause considerable traffic problems.
The River Rother, which has the longest stretch of grossly pulluted river in the United Kingdom, passes through many of the areas that I have already discussed, and then goes on to pollute the rivers Don and Humber, and finally the North sea.
Airborne pollution affects the River Rother because the muck in the air falls on the ground and is washed into it.
www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm198889/cmhansrd/1989-03-13/Debate-16.html   (7684 words)

  
 The Royal Military Canal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The western end of the route would use two rivers so water would not be a problem there.
The river stretch is run by the Environment Agency and it is still navigable by permission.
There was no lock built at the junction with the river and the course of the canal is too narrow here to have been used with any efficiency.
www.canals.btinternet.co.uk /canals/royalmilitary.htm   (4294 words)

  
 River Rother (Eastern)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
This is a tributary of the River Rother navigable for almost 8 miles.
It is called the "Western" to distinguish it from the "Eastern" River Rother, which is also in Sussex.
This is the point where it is generally considered that the River Ure also joins the Ouse but many asserted that the Ure changes to the Ouse at Ouse Gill Beck, in which case the Swale does not join the Ouse but the Ure.
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 River Arun
River opened for navigation between Houghton Bridge and Newbridge in 1790.
Although the river was once made navigable for 36 miles from Christchurch to Salisbury boats are no longer able to use the waterway.
In 1535 a commission was appointed to remove weirs and obstructions from the river but no work seems to have been done.
easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/River-Arun.html   (1216 words)

  
 uboat.net - Allied Warships - Frigate HMS Jed of the River class
On May 6th after arriving in the Western Approaches from St John’s in support of a convoy, Jed in company with the sloop HMS Pelican, located a lurking U-boat on the surface by radar, they both went in for the kill and U-438 was destroyed by Pelican.
On the 19th the frigate in company with her sisters HMS Spey and HMS Wear and the sloop HMS Sennen came up from the rear of the convoy and sighted the U-954 on the surface.
Brewer) consisting of the sloops HMS Pelican, HMS Egret and the frigates HMS Jed, HMS Rother, HMS Spey and HMS Evenlode.
uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/101.html   (788 words)

  
 Ari's Base Camp - Western Alps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
West of the Zermatt valley, the mountains are mainly lower and more remote, although at the chain's western extremity, the icy massif of Grand Combin rises to 4314m.
Access to western part of the chain is either from Zinal in the North, d'Hérens valley in the west, Aosta or Breuil-Cervinia in the south or Zermatt is the northeast.
Access to climbs on the western side is from villages in Saas valley with roads and cableways.
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 Articles - Sussex   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Between those two ridges, mainly in West Sussex, lies the ‘’Vale of Sussex’’; at the eastern end of the county is the valley of the River Rother, which flows into what was a long sea inlet to reach the sea at Rye Bay.
Its eastern extremity is in two sections, divided by the River Rother valley.
Eastern River Rother and its many tributaries including the Rivers Bewl (flowing through Bewl Water) and Tillingham: source, the Weald near Heathfield; it flows in an easterly direction and enters the sea at Rye Bay.
www.lastring.com /articles/Sussex   (1742 words)

  
 River Rother (Eastern)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The River Rother is one of the longest rivers in Kent, England.
The river's section below Bodiam Castle is navigable, the lower stages winding through the Romney Marsh.
It should not be confused with the River Rother (Western), in West Sussex.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/river_rother__eastern_   (143 words)

  
 Rye Harbour
As with all Martello Towers built in the UK, Europe and North America, their purpose was to provide concentrated cannon and gun fire on ships and to repel the landing of the enemy force.
In fact, many of the towers built along the Kent and Sussex coasts were made from bricks manufactured in Rye and transported by barge passing through Rye Harbour on the River Rother.
Whilst they cannot be classed as gems of architecture their historical significance should not be disregarded, for they bear within themselves the very essence of the oldest masonry fortifications and have affinities with Phoenician watch towers and early medieval castles.
www.ryeharbour.org /print.php?sid=15   (646 words)

  
 Constituencies in the unreformed House
Conway: Port at the mouth of the Conway River on the north Wales coast.
Port on the River Bann in north-eastern County Londonderry.
City, port and county town of Londonderry, on the River Foyle in the west of the County.
www.election.demon.co.uk /prereform.html   (2797 words)

  
 CNN.com - Windswept Europe braced for fresh storms - November 6, 2000
Gale force winds and rain are forecast for much of Western Europe as a slow-moving depression swirls from Britain and France towards Oslo in the north and Poland and the Balkans in the south.
Three rivers had overflowed in southern England by Monday afternoon, with police and emergency teams kept busy fortifying flood defences and evacuating dozens of people from homes inundated by up to two feet of water.
In the northern city of York, one of the hardest hit by the floods, the River Ouse was still receding from its Saturday peak, but police feared the new downpours could cause it to rise again and topple water-logged fortifications.
edition.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/11/06/britain.floods.04   (1396 words)

  
 Rye Harbour
Vessels entering the estuary of the River Rother should follow the coast from Dungeness approaching from the east or Fairlight from the west keeping at least two miles off shore or greater than 6 meters until Rye fairway Buoy is sighted (RW, Fl ev.
The river has a maximum velocity of 5 knots for 2 hours either side of high water.
Commercial traffic indicator lights are positioned either side of the Harbour Masters office clearly visible for 2 miles indicating the state of commercial traffic maneuvers with-in the port that prevent access to other craft.
www.ryeharbour.org /print.php?sid=6   (829 words)

  
 Rye
As maintenance of navigable waters was considered important the Act included the provision of a swing or draw bridge over River Rother at Rye.
A swing bridge was installed and remained in use until 1903 when the river authorities agreed it could be replaced by a fixed bridge.
While we are in the vicinity of the bridge over the River Rother, here is a treadle situated at the western side of the bridge on the approach to the double track section through the station.
www.semg.org.uk /location/rye_01.html   (405 words)

  
 BBC News | UK | Deluge heightens flood alerts
The River Uck burst its banks on Sunday night, flooding Uckfield, in East Sussex, for the second time in three weeks.
The River Frome in Dorchester, Dorset, flooded at 0530 GMT on Monday.
Severe flood warnings apply to the River Rother in east Sussex, the Western Rother in west Sussex and the River Beult in Kent.
news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/uk/newsid_1009000/1009956.stm   (657 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Sedbergh is pleasantly situated in a secluded vale, among rugged mountains, at the N.W. extremity of the county, upon on the small river Rother.
This place is situated near the western extremity of the Forest of Bolland, on the borders of Lancashire.
This Mansion stands in a large and beautiful Park, watered by a stream that falls into the river Went, in the midst of the most fertile part of the county, bounded by an expanded range of distant hills; it was built by Edward Lascelles Esq.
www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/YKS/yrksdict/west/wests.txt   (13810 words)

  
 Latin Names of Places
Auennus: River Avon, a tributary of the Clyde, Scotland.
Idumanus: Blackwater River, or the mouth of the Stour and Orwell, Essex.
Lemana Flu.: The Rother, Kent; the Loman, Devon.
comp.uark.edu /~mreynold/recint2.htm   (3174 words)

  
 The Wild Trout Trust: Technical Papers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
River Chess at Micklefield Estate, Near Sarratt, Rickmansworth, Herts.
HOLLOWAY, R.J. The River Idoch (or Burn of Monquhitter) - Advisory Visit Report Undertaken on behalf of The Wild Trout Trust And The Deveron, Bogie and Isla Rivers Trust.
LEWIS, V. Habitat advisory visit to the River Windrush, Gloucestershire, undertaken by Vaughan Lewis, Windrush AEC on behalf of Robert Symonds’ syndicate.
www.wildtrout.org /WTT/library/papers.asp   (997 words)

  
 British Archaeology magazine, October 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The River Rother, which flowed past Smallhythe 500 years ago and was wide and deep enough to carry 1,000-ton warships, has long since silted up.
All the Anglo-Saxon fragments are confined to one specific area (between Queenhithe and the mouth of the Walbrook stream) at the western end of the waterfront.
Either way, their craft continued, and clinker-built river barges survived on the Thames well into the age of photography when iron ships were powered by steam.
www.britarch.ac.uk /ba/ba61/feat2.shtml   (2570 words)

  
 Romney_Marsh
The river mouth was wide with a huge lagoon making Rye a port at its western end.
In 1462 the Romney Marsh Corporation was established to install drainage and sea defences for the marsh, which it continued to build into the 16th century.
By the 16th century the course of the Rother had been changed to its channel today; and most of the remainder of the area had now been reclaimed from the sea.
www.tuxedo-shop.com /search.php?title=Romney_Marsh   (1451 words)

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