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	Online Etymology Dictionary
		riviere, from V.L. riparia "riverbank, seashore, river"* (cf.
		river in Palestine; the crossing of it is symbolic of death in high-flown language as a ref. to Num.
		Meaning "part of a river or stream frequented by fish" (and hence fishermen) is from 1828, and is probably the source of the fig.
	www.etymonline.com /index.php?search=river (1666 words)

	Yorkshire - Topographical Dictionary of England - Combs &c.
		The low grounds adjoining the rivers have a soil formed chiefly of the alluvial matter washed from the surrounding higher grounds: those on the banks of the Ouse are most remarkable for their fertility.
		The river Aire is the eastern boundary of the clothing district, which extends over the country thence to the mountain ridge separating this county from that of Lancaster.
		The principal rivers are, the Northern Ouse (so called to distinguish it from the Ouse of Buckinghamshire), the Swale, the Ure, the Wharfe, the Derwent, the Aire, the Calder, the Don, the Hull, the Tees, and the Esk, all of which, except the two latter, pour their waters through the great æstuary of the Humber.
	www.combs-families.org /combs/records/england/yks/history.htm (8901 words)

	River Don, England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The River Don is a river in South Yorkshire, England.
		The Don's major tributaries are the Dearne, the Rother, the Sheaf, the Rivelin and the Loxley.
		Fig trees grow on a stretch of the river bank in Sheffield; the seeds having germinated successfully thanks to the increased warmth of the water near factory outfalls.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/River_Don,_England (397 words)

	River Sheaf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The River Sheaf is a river in Sheffield, England.
		This lower section of the River Sheaf together with the River Don, between the present Blonk Street and Lady's Bridges, formed two sides of the boundary of Sheffield Castle.
		The main tributaries of the Sheaf are the Porter Brook and the Meers Brook.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/River_Sheaf (268 words)

	The Ancient Kingdom of Elmet
		From the low hills near Whitwell Gap it is possible to see Dore on the high land to the northwest, and the hills that overlook the Humber to the northeast.
		"The rivers united in the estuary of the Humber led like open highways into the heart of Britain, and it was by this inlet that the great mass of invaders penetrated into the interior of the island.
		There are a group Anglo-Saxon villages near the river Aire north of Pontefract taking their name from the people of Friesia, they are 'Fryston', Water Fryston.
	www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/FeaturesBritain/BritishElmet.htm (3138 words)

	Stringer, James: snow gate - 'River of Life'
		On the bank of the River Sheaf on Saxon Road, Heeley; the three gates are located opposite to Clyde Road.
		The idea had originated with the 'Friends of the River Sheaf' and was supported by the 'Heeley Development Trust' who subsequently took the project over.
		The siting of these gates is a small part of a larger project to make the Sheaf accessible to walkers and other users so that eventually it may be possible to walk, run or cycle along paths adjacent to the river from the moors on Sheffield's western fringes to the city centre.
	public-art.shu.ac.uk /sheffield/str358.html (308 words)

	RIVER Articles from AMAZINES.COM - The Article Database and EZine Publishers Database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The source of a river may be a lake, a spring, or a collection of small streams, known as headwaters.
		A river conducts water by constantly flowing perpendicular to the elevation curve of its bed, thereby converting the potential energy of the water into kinetic energy.
		Across the river from London Bridge is “The City of London” the financial district of the capital.
	amazines.com /river_related.html (2975 words)

	River to Romeo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nat 1.19 6...the river is a perpetual gala...
		Thor 10.466 9 The river on whose banks [Thoreau] was born and died he knew from its springs to its confluence with the Merrimack.
		HDC 11.44 8...it was the river, or the winter, or famine, or the Pequots, that spoke through [the townsmen] to the Governor and the Council of Massachusetts Bay.
	www.concordnet.org /library/scollect/EmersonConcordance/RIVER-ROMEO.HTM (18438 words)

	Bradway Bugle articles & letters about Bradway's past
		Its location: its western boundary is the River Sheaf, in part the ancient parish boundary between Sheffield and Norton (and incidentally the ancient boundary between Yorkshire and Derbyshire and between the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Northumbria and Mercia).
		The sight that greeted us on reaching the area just before the cafe and the stepping stones that cross the river, was something that resembled a present day major film set, a sight that a couple of fourteen year old youngsters would never forget.
		It’s nose pointed down towards the river and to the right of the back of the cafe some 50 metres in front of the aircraft, which appeared to have cleared the top of the bank with the pilot intending to land in the park but having dropped too soon.
	www.villagepublications.co.uk /bradway/spr04/localhistory.htm (2359 words)

	Untitled Article
		Records for Thief River Falls indicate that Thief River Falls has now had at least 100 years of newspaper tradition to be proud of and it begins with two newspapers.
		The News, the first newspaper of record noted by the state historical society for Thief River Falls, was moved from Red Lake Falls to Thief River Falls in the August of 1893 by James P. Meehan.
		On September 1, 1927, The Thief River Falls Times was consolidated with the Thief River Falls Tribune, which had been purchased by William Dahlquist and Ludwig Roe of Montevideo two years earlier, after having been published by J.S. Arneson for five years.
	www.trftimes.com /trftimes/Times-History (2260 words)

	Hudson River Bridge (unbuilt)
		The complete Hudson River Bridge and Terminal project, which was to include a tunnel through Bergen Hill in New Jersey, was projected by Lindenthal to cost $23 million.
		The proposal contemplates the erection of a cantilever, and stipulates for the placement of one pier in the river channel, neither of which should be permitted unless absolutely found necessary, even if the cost were considerably increased.
		Traffic to be accommodated by such a new major Hudson River crossing, however, would require extensive and costly expressway facilities in Bergen County and across northern Manhattan, and extensive connections through Queens and on Long Island.
	www.nycroads.com /crossings/hudson-river-bridge (1926 words)

	Tilt Hammer - Water Wheels - River Sheaf
		The River Sheaf has provided a source of power for several manufacturing processes for over a thousand years.
		The first water powered mills were probably used for grinding corn but it was soon discovered that the water wheels could be used to drive different kinds of machinery.
		The remains of some of them can still be seen by walking along the course of the River Sheaf.
	www.tilthammer.com /water/sheaf1.html (140 words)

	Origin of Sheffield name [Archive] - Sheffield Forum
		The name of the River Sheaf (derived from the Old English word meaning a frontier or divide) reminds us again that this was border country between highland and lowland.
		The borders of Mercia and Northumbria were the River Sheaf (the name of which means a boundary river), the Meers Brook, (which means brook of the boundary) and the Limb Brook.
		There was a river that ran the length of Millhouses Park, never did know the name of it though, it was mostly on the boundary of the park between the park and the railway line.
	www.sheffieldforum.co.uk /archive/index.php/t-69.html (7434 words)

	Wave Sheaf-Print
		The wave sheaf was originally offered by the children of Israel in the year that they crossed the Jordan River and entered the land God had promised to give them.
		Since the day of the wave sheaf was both "the morrow after the Sabbath" and "the morrow after the Passover," there is no question that the Passover fell on a weekly Sabbath in that particular year.
		Thus the sheaf of Joshua 5 was waved on the 15th of Abib, the earliest possible date.
	www.cbcg.org /WaveSheaf_print.htm (9317 words)

	The Heroic Age: Politics of Exile in Early Northumbria, N/B
		According to C. Taylor (1992:112), the southern boundary of Elmet may have extended to the river Sheaf (derived from the old English word for boundary), a southern tributary of the River Don.
		Taylor (1992:112) believes that the early Old English derivation of the names of the river Sheaf and the towns of Dore (in Old English dor, “large gate” or “door”) and Whitwell gap (in Old English hwite-welle-geat, “the gate or gap near the white spring”) all indicate an early boundary during the initial Anglo-Saxon settlement period.
		The region of the River Don was a possible southern area of Elmet (Taylor 1992:112, 123).
	www.mun.ca /mst/heroicage/issues/2/ha2pen2.htm (3884 words)

	Millhouse
		It is located in Ecclesall ward in the south-western portion of the city on the west bank of the River Sheaf.
		It is bordered to the south-east by the River Sheaf and Hutcliff Wood, to the south-west by Ecclesall Wood, and to the north by the woods in the grounds of Abbeydale Grange Secondary School.
		The River Sheaf marked the boundary between the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/137/millhouse.html (646 words)

	Canadian Adventure Travel - Canada Rafting - Nahanni River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Those requiring our river bags will have time to transfer gear from their own bags.
		It was here, on the shores of Headless Creek, that the bodies of the Mcleod brothers were found in 1905 and the legend of the Headless Valley was born.
		Patterson later wrote Dangerous River, one of the most eloquent accounts of the early days on the river.
	www.freshtracks.ca /river_rafting/nahanni.shtml (965 words)

	Places to Stay on the Delaware River
		Barley Sheaf is a 1740 Bucks County farm situated on 30 acres at the end of a long tree-lined drive.
		In addition, there is a beautiful terraced river bank and a deck at waters edge where you can relax, read, fish, enjoy the sun or dine.
		Historic Milanville House Bed and Breakfast, a 19th century lumberjack inn restored as a modern bed and breakfast, is located in the beautiful Upper Delaware River Valley between the Pocono and Catskill Mountains of Pennsylvania and New York.
	www.delawareriver.net /bbinns.php (2162 words)

	River Sheaf - Everything on River Sheaf (information, latest news, articles,...) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The River Sheaf is a river in South Yorkshire, England.
		The main tributaries of the Sheaf are the Porter Brook and the Meersbrook.
		Along the river can be seen the Grade 1 listed Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet and Beauchief Abbey.
	www.spiritus-temporis.com /river-sheaf (283 words)

	Schooldays - Memories/History R E Leader Chapter 10
		In this, guarded by water on two sides, the old Castle stood, with approaches across the rivers by the Lady's Bridge on the one hand, and by the Sheaf Bridge on the other.
		It was not until the eighteenth century was well advanced that houses began to straggle across to the north bank of the Don and the east side of the Sheaf.
		Indeed, the town hardly reached the two rivers, there being, except at certain points, large margins of crofts and gardens between the houses and the streams.
	www.omnesamici.co.uk /MemoriestRELeaderChapter10.html (5136 words)

	Sheffield
		The name is derived from the Sheaf, one of the rivers on which the town is situated, and 'field.'
		The earl of Arundel, who had been of the royal party, retired to the Continent, and his estates at Sheffield were seized by the parliament, but restored in November, 1648, on payment of £6,000 as a composition.
		A silk-mill was also erected in 1758, and subsequently cotton-spinning was carried on upon the same premises ; but though perseveringly continued in spite of two conflagrations, this trade did not appear to thrive, and has now been for some time entirely abandoned, and the mill is converted into an excellent workhouse.
	www.oldtowns.co.uk /Yorkshire/sheffield.htm (2393 words)

	quibble
		The Quizmaster contends that this tributary status means that the the Sheaf is subordinate to the Don.
		The Sheaf is however referred to locally and on maps as a river, and gave Sheffield its name.
		Had the question been, "Which is the largest of Sheffield's rivers?" The Don would have been the correct answer.
	uk.geocities.com /kingsarmsbedford/index_files/quibble.htm (400 words)

	River to Romeo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Thor 10.466 11 The river on whose banks [Thoreau] was born and died he knew from its springs to its confluence with the Merrimack.
		Thor 10.466 9 The river on whose banks [Thoreau] was born and died he knew from its springs to its confluence with the Merrimack.
		HDC 11.44 8...it was the river, or the winter, or famine, or the Pequots, that spoke through [the townsmen] to the Governor and the Council of Massachusetts Bay.
	www.walden.org /Institute/thoreau/about2/E/Emerson_Ralph_Waldo/Concordance/RIVER-ROMEO.HTM (20357 words)

	Notes on History of Millhouses
		It lay in the Manor and Parish of Ecclesall, and was in border country - lying on the Yorkshire side of the River Sheaf with Derbyshire opposite.
		The various wheels along the river were all there at the same time as the charcoal burner - that is before the end of the 18th century.
		There were other wheels along the River Sheaf driving rolling mills griniding hulls and a paper mill at Totley, smelting at the Bole Hills above Whirlow and Norton, charcoal making in the woods all around the area and coal mining usually associated with the surface clay deposits used to make bricks.
	www.bridgfam.force9.co.uk /mill.htm (1833 words)

	Sheffield City Guide
		These rivers and woodlands played a huge part in shaping the city’s history and industry for many centuries.
		The name Sheffield is believed to come from the fields around the River Sheaf that were perhaps one of the last areas to be captured by the Anglo-Saxons and absorbed into their Kingdom of Northumbria.
		The Anglo-Saxon river name Sheaf means ‘boundary-river’ and this may also have formed part of the boundary of Northumbria.
	www.british-publishing.com /Pages/Sheffield/history.html (818 words)

	The River Reporter Online - Going Out by Ed Wesely
		Milkweed village, part II Last time, I described two beetles that depend on the common milkweed plant—the milkweed longhorn beetle and the milkweed leaf beetle, which restrict their diets to milkweed leaves and which lay eggs on the undersides.
		The eggs were covered, as spider eggs often are, with a sheaf of tough, gauzy silk about the size of a fingernail.
		After a few days an army of tiny white caterpillars emerged to begin feeding, moving from leaf to leaf in tight formation and stripping all but the most durable veins.
	www.riverreporter.com /issues/02-08-08/wesely.htm (388 words)

	Yorkshire
		It is bordered by County Durham (along the River Tees), Lincolnshire (along the Humber), Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire (along the Pennines), Westmorland and the North Sea and is traditionally divided into West, North and East Ridings (from Old Norse þriðing, "third part", a legacy of the area’s ninth century Scandinavian settlers).
		Today, the southern boundary of Yorkshire is not much different from the ancient one formed by the River Don and the River Sheaf.
		When, in 2005, the people of the North East England region voted to reject the proposition that their regional assembly become an elected body, plans for a similar referendum in the Yorkshire and the Humber region were shelved, and the regional assembly remains an unelected body.
	www.globalguide.org /index.html?id=44443 (1703 words)

	history.
		It was built by the Celtic Brigantes tribe in the 1st century AD, possibly to withstand the northward advance of the Roman legions.
		Five centuries later, the Saxons founded a settlement beside the River Sheaf, which was called Scafield.
		It was at Dore, some six miles south-west, and now a suburb of Sheffield, that King Egbert of Wessex received the submission of King Eanred of Northumbria in 829 and so became the first Saxon overlord of all England.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /t.green/history.htm (770 words)

	the United Kingdom Guiding Areas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The bullrushes refer to fenland and the sheaf of corn to the south of the county.
		The river Tees divided those two counties, and was included as a sign of the hope that it would now unite Cleveland round its banks.
		The name Sheffield derives from the River Sheaf and a field-the river is denoted by the blue of the roundel-the arrows represent the cutlery and stell products of Sheffield and the garb or sheaf of corn is a rebus (pictorial pun) on the name 'Sheaffield'.
	www.jenefer.speedyweb.com /uk.shtml (11890 words)

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