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	River Stour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		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 (125 words)

	River Stour, Dorset - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The River Stour is a 60.5 mile long river in southern England.
		The source of the river is at Stourhead, in Wiltshire where it forms a series of artificial lakes which are part of the Stourhead estate, owned by the National Trust.
		In winter the river often floods, and is therefore bordered by wide and fertile flood plains.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/River_Stour,_Dorset (267 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)

	Encyclopedia: Flood
		The Red River Flood of 1997 was a major flood that occurred in April and May 1997, along the Red River of the North in North Dakota, Minnesota, and Manitoba.
		In 1982 the river Jucar (Valencia, Spain) broke Tous's reservoir provoking an avalanche of 16.000 m3/seg.
		The JÃºcar is a river on the Iberian Peninsula of Spain.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Flood (4497 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Gazetteer (Wim-Winf) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The Wind River Range is a mountain range in west Wyoming.
		The Windau is the chief river of Courland.
		Winfrith Newburgh is a village in Dorset, England.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /GYB.HTM (1486 words)

	North_Dorset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		North Dorset is a local government district and parliamentry constituency in Dorset, England.
		Much of North Dorset is in the River Stour valley and is called the Blackmore Vale.
		At the 2001 UK census North Dorset had a population of 61,905, a rise of 8,300 from 1991, with 25,248 households.
	www.tuxedo-shop.com /search.php?title=North_Dorset (166 words)

	River Stour
		When the river level is BELOW the cross beams on the wooden bridge to the carpark (River Left) it will be bony and irrelevant.
		When the level is JUST ON the beams there is a river wide stopper with a way out in the middle.
		River level ABOVE these beams and Cowgrove disappears entirely with a hint of a wave on the way depending on the exact level.
	www.ukriversguidebook.co.uk /stourfromspetisbury.htm (582 words)

	River Stour, Dorset
		The river flows south into Dorset, through Gillingham, the Blackmore Vale, Sturminster Newton, Blandford Forum and Wimborne to its estuary at Christchurch, where it flows into the English Channel.
		For many miles the river is followed by the now disused Somerset and Dorset Railway, which bridged the river five times.
		In winter the river often floods, and is therefore bordered by wide flood plains.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/river_stour__dorset (267 words)

	The Upper Stour - Rural Dorset
		Pamphill is one of Dorset’s most unspoilt villages; along with the neighbouring villages of Cowgrove and Shapwick, it was bequeathed to the National Trust in 1982 by the Bankes Family, as part of the Kingston Lacy Estate.
		The statue of Eros in Picadilly Circus, London is a monument to the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, the ‘Philanthropic Earl’, and the arrow is aligned to this quaint East Dorset village.
		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=11 (3683 words)

	Search Results for stour - Encyclopædia Britannica
		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...
		North Dorset is an area of rolling countryside diagonally split by chalk downs 400 to 900 feet (120 to 275 metres) high,...
	www.britannica.com /search?query=stour&submit=Find&source=MWTAB (358 words)

	River Stour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The River Stour is a substantial river which runs 96 km (59 miles) from south east Somerset and west Wiltshire through north Dorset and the Blackmore Vale into east Dorset, the eastern fringe of Bournemouth and Christchurch where it meets the Hampshire Avon and empties into the sea at Mudeford.
		The Stour is still a stronghold of White-legged damsel fly and Scarce Chaser Dragonfly and is seeing the return of the otter after years of persecution and removal of bankside cover.
		Between 1998 and 2001 the Stour was the focus of Confluence, a project run by Common Ground helping and encouraging local people to make their own new music in celebration of the river and its tributaries, springs, wells, flora and fauna.
	www.england-in-particular.info /stour.html (512 words)

	Journey Along A River - Overflowing Rivers - River Stour - Dorset - Hydrographs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The River Stour has a history of flooding and major floods were recorded as far back as 1756.
		Describe the pattern of flow of the River Stour at Hammoon in 1999.
		The hydrograph for the month of December shows the fluctuations in discharge on the River Stour.
	www.swgfl.org.uk /riversa/hgraphs.htm (270 words)

	Why encourage more wildlife around your stream? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Rivers are an important part of our biodiversity.
		Such wetland habitats are particularly important to a host of rare animals and plants, many of which need to be encouraged as their homes are increasingly under threat in the wider countryside.
		The River Stour acts as a stronghold for the nationally rare scarce chaser
	www.geocities.com /RainForest/Canopy/7418/liv_gard/liv_7wil.htm (224 words)

	JobsNation.net - National News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		David Berry, 16, was pushed to his death from a bridge over the River Stour in Dorset in June 2004.
		During the hearing at Bournemouth Crown Court, the court was told that David, who was described as "popular", had been with a group of friends in the area, relaxing during a break from school to study for his GCSEs.
		The defendant and his friend, who were both aged 16 at the time, decided to throw David into the river from a bridge.
	www.jobsnation.net /nationalnews.asp?ID=38435 (318 words)

	River Stour - Fishing in Wessex
		The Dorset Stour which is most fishable from Blandford to Christchurch Harbour, contains many species of coarse fish.
		The river Stour starts notably as a fishing river from just North of Gillingham in Dorset, and flows on a fairly southerly course through North-West Dorset to the coast at Christchurch Harbour where it combines with the Hampshire Avon in the harbour mouth.
		The river supports a wide range of fish from excellent barbel, bream and chub in the lower stretches, to mullet near the harbour.
	www.fishinginwessex.com /dorset_stour (296 words)

	Rivers Reach, Southbourne, Dorset.
		Rivers Reach is a family run residential detached house, non-smoking, very quiet, with the emphasis on a relaxed holiday or break.
		Set in a quiet residential area Rivers Reach is ideally situated close to the River Stour, between Tuckton Bridge and Wick Ferry with beautiful riverside walks right down to Hengistbury Head and the lovely Mudeford beach.
		Although in Southbourne, we are only one mile to the picturesque Town Centre of Christchurch with its quaint streets, Priory and restaurants, which cater for all tastes.
	www.newforest.demon.co.uk /rivers.htm (154 words)

	birding facts Birding Resources by the Fat Birder
		Dorset seems to straddle the west and east, with buzzards and redstarts, honey buzzards and bearded tits.
		Portland is a major migration point for birds and is visited throughout the year by hundreds of dedicated bird watchers, descending on the most obvious to the remotest of locations to watch and study some of the most outstanding flying species on earth...
		It is against the increasingly disruptive aspects of twitching, where common sense, civility and the aesthetic enjoyment of observing a natural creature has been largely replaced by boorish, sometimes even aggressive behaviour and an often total disregard for the welfare of the bird involved, habitat, fellow enthusiasts, the general public and property...
	www.fatbirder.com /links_geo/europe/england_dorset.html (2245 words)

	BBC - Dorset - In Pictures - River Stour
		The River Stour meanders through Dorset - here at Sturminster there is a 17th Century Mill which harnessed the power of the river and has been a favourite spot for poets, writers and painters over the years.
		To move around in the image, hold down your left mouse button and drag, or use cursor keys.
		BBC Dorset, Portfolio House, Princes Street, Dorchester, DT1 1TP
	www.bbc.co.uk /dorset/content/panoramas/stour_360.shtml (112 words)

	Edinburgh Evening News - UK - Yobs locked up for pushing boy to his death
		TWO teenage bullies who pushed a boy who could not swim to his death in a river were detained for eight months and 18 months today.
		Victim David Berry, 16, who could not swim and had a water phobia, had gone to relax with school friends at the River Stour, in Dorset, in hot weather during his GCSE study leave last June.
		David, a popular boy who lived with his father and stepmother near Shaftesbury, Dorset, had shouted at the teenagers to leave him as he clung desperately to the bridge railings, but they prised his fingers away and pushed him around 11ft into the river.
	edinburghnews.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=268072005 (283 words)

	Education \| 'Drunk bully' guilty of killing schoolmate
		A teenager who threw a schoolmate off a bridge into a river where he drowned was yesterday found guilty of manslaughter.
		The 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, claimed he was only "mucking about" when he and a friend "frogmarched" David Berry, 16, to Colber bridge and then forced him into the river Stour in Dorset after a GSCE exam last June.
		But Bournemouth crown court heard that the defendant was a "bully" who was drunk and had done "virtually nothing" to rescue David, who had special educational needs, a phobia of water and could not swim.
	education.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5144425-114999,00.html (669 words)

	Wildlife News: Second otter death sparks fears (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Last year an otter and two cubs were killed in an illegal eel net in the River Stour in Dorset.
		It was very close to an otter holt that was specially built on the river by the Dorset Wildlife Trust four years ago to attract the elusive creatures.
		Last month a Dorset man was ordered to pay £500 in fines and costs for using illegal eel nets in Poole Harbour.
	www.naturalworldtours.co.uk /articles2003/march/march3003g.htm (370 words)

	Exhibitions at The Slade Centre
		The book contained 30 printed woodcuts of the River Stour by Peter Ursem and was displayed on a small table.
		The public were invited to put on a pair of white cotton gloves and to follow the river in its course through the book.
		The prints show how the river, after it springs almost imperceptibly in the valley north west of Stourhead, grows from a gentle brook to a considerable waterway.
	www.webcom.com /~tli/sladecentre/past/reflections.htm (376 words)

	Greene King Hotels: Bridge House - Dorset
		The Bridge House is situated on the River Stour in the picturesque Dorset countryside.
		All 33 rooms — many of which have river views — are en-suite with full facilities.
		There is also a private island on site, an extensive car park and fishing in the River Stour is free to residents by prior arrangement.
	www.oldenglishinns.co.uk /inn/showinn.php?houseno=6416 (205 words)

	ipedia.com: Rivers of the United Kingdom Article
		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.
	www.ipedia.com /rivers_of_the_united_kingdom.html (226 words)

	Best Walks - Walking Dorset
		Contains details of the Dorset portion (62 miles) of this long distance walk, divided into 6 sections, as well as 11 circular walks.
		Rambles from Dorset Towns, Edward Griffiths - long circular walks in the less well known areas of the county.
		Ghost Hunter Walks in Dorset, Rupert Matthews - If you fancy a pleasant walk with a spooky secret to send a shiver up your spine, then this is the book for you.
	www.bestwalks.com /dorsetbooks.htm (1540 words)

	Country Diary: Dorset
		Our plan was to find the source of the River Tarrant in Cranborne Chase, and follow its eight or nine mile journey through an almost secret valley, between windswept...
		Our plan was to find the source of the River Tarrant in Cranborne Chase, and follow its eight or nine mile journey through an almost secret valley, between windswept chalk hills, many of them covered with a thin soil full of flints to where it joins the Stour near Spetisbury.
		Tarrant Gunville is the first of eight Tarrant villages - rows of cottages of either cob and thatch, or banded flint and brick, lining the road that follows most of the river's course.
	www.buzzle.com /editorials/10-10-2005-78552.asp (355 words)

	Wildlife News: Environment Agency investigates major fish kill. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Farm waste, high in ammonia levels, was found in the river starving the water of oxygen and killing fish and other aquatic life.
		It is thought the pollution must have occurred somewhere near where the River Cale, a tributary of the Stour, passes under the A30 south west of Gillingham in Dorset.
		The river has started to recover at that point but so far at least 3,000 fish have been found dead.
	www.naturalworldtours.co.uk /articles2000/august/aug1200f.htm (303 words)

	River Avon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		It says something about the state of river access in the UK that I know more about some rivers on the Tibetan plateau than I do about most of the river which flows near my house.
		After the waterworks, the river passes under the railway and loops past a large house, footbridge and car-park on river right.
		The right to navigate the river was enshrined in law in 1664 (17 Charles II Cap.12), the act is apparently preserved in the House of Lords Record Office.
	www.s106156335.websitehome.co.uk /avon.htm (1713 words)

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