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	River Wensum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A tree-lined section of the River Wensum as it flows through the city of Norwich, seen in July 2005.
		The source of the Wensum lies between the villages of Colkirk and Whissonsett in Breckland, Norfolk.
		The river then merges with the river Yare to the south of the city before flowing eastward through Breydon Water to the North Sea at Great Yarmouth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/River_Wensum (227 words)

	ipedia.com: The Broads National Park Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The River Thurne is a tributary of the Bure.
		The River Chet is a tributary of the River Yare.
		The River Wensum is a tributary of the River Yare.
	www.ipedia.com /the_broads_national_park.html (704 words)

	Norwich River Bridges
		The present bridge by the football ground and new swimming pool was built by J.Butler and Co of Leeds as a single-leaf roller bascule, and was opened by the Prince of Wales on 27th June 1923.
		In 1832 this and the adjoining bridge across another arm of the river were built with a roadway of over 20 feet, the former bridge having an elliptical brick arch on stone abutments and the latter having a four-centred arch.
		Three “A” frame bridges were built over the river Wensum when the Midland and Great Northern railway constructed a spur line from Melton Constable to their new City Station near Heigham Street, Norwich around 1880.
	www.the-plunketts.freeserve.co.uk /riverbridges.htm (2257 words)

	The Classic Malts Wild Trout Conservation Award 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The River Avon in Salisbury city centre was the subject of an Environment Agency project to restore habitat in an urban setting.
		The amateur runner-up was a restoration project on the River Blackwater in Norfolk, a tributary of the Yare.
		The river had suffered unsuccessful attempts to stock trout (which quickly disappeared as herons arrived), and was a featureless, muddy canal before work began.
	www.wildtrout.org /WTT/projects/conservationAward/2001.asp (919 words)

	Sayers Meadow Habitat Restoration Project
		A second objective of the project was to establish a new population of barbel in the middle reaches of the Wensum several miles upstream of what was then Norfolk's only resident stock of barbel in the Costessey to Hellesdon reach of the river, an area that had been seriously affected by increased water abstraction.
		The properties concerned had been built in the floodplain and the inability of the river channel to cope with the excess of water was due entirely to the old mill sluice/side-stream structure in the village.
		A new dyke off of the river was dug out and widened to act as a fry refuge to provide shelter from winter floods and a number of new willows were planted along the riverbank.
	www.norfolkanglers.com /projects/sayers_meadow.html (1747 words)

	River Yare Navigation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The settlement of Bramerton is on the southern crest of the bend.
		The River Wensum is the bigger of the two rivers here and it is it which takes the navigation into the city, through Trowse Swing Bridge (TG245076) which carries the main line railway to London and Carrow Road Lift Bridge (TG238077) which carries the A147 over the navigation.
		Beyond the bridge the River Wensum is closed to hire boats but can be navigated by private craft for one more mile, curving left to New Mills (TG226090) in the north west corner of the city centre.
	www.btinternet.com /~canals/canals/yarenavigation.htm (6134 words)

	ORB - Medieval English urban history - Norwich - Origins
		The bounds of settlement north of the Wensum remained confined, throughout the medieval period, to the area defined by the gravel terrace.
		Marsh surrounding the banks of the river inhibited expansion northwards until that area was reclaimed in the twelfth century.
		Since Westwyk appears to have been named because of its geographical position in relation to either Conesford or the crossroads/marketplace, Norwich probably originated as the name of the expansion area north of Conesford; the term "wic" was often used for subsidiary settlements, serving a larger settlement.
	www.the-orb.net /encyclop/culture/towns/norwich1.html (1666 words)

	Breckland Council - Wensum Valley Walks
		The River Wensum flows from the Fakenham area in the north west of Norfolk to Norwich, where it joins the River Yare.
		The Wensum Valley is noted for the quality of its landscape and its wildlife.
		Dykeside and river plants such as yellow iris, hemp agrimony, sedges and rushes are important for insects, particularly dragonflies.
	www.breckland.gov.uk /Breckland/tourism.nsf/pages/WensumVa150048.html (926 words)

	Ports.org.uk / Norwich
		Only a century later the river was the route for the stone used to build Norwich Cathedral, coming from France up the Yare and Wensum, through the Cathedral water gate (Pulls Ferry) and along a canal made specifically for the transport of the building materials to be unloaded on the spot.
		The River Wensum was an important transport artery until the coming of the railway.
		However today the river is largely the preserve of the holiday maker and the sailor.
	www.ports.org.uk /port.asp?id=61 (481 words)

	River Wensum - Special Area of Conservation - SAC
		The Wensum represents sub-type 1 in lowland eastern England.
		Although the river is extensively regulated by weirs, Ranunculus vegetation occurs sporadically throughout much of the river’s length.
		The Wensum is a chalk-fed river in eastern England, and is an eastern example of riverine white-clawed crayfish Austropotamobius pallipes populations.
	www.jncc.gov.uk /protectedsites/sacselection/sac.asp?EUcode=UK0012647 (325 words)

	The river in Norwich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The river Wensum flows through the centre of Norwich and the section from the new mills weir through the city is open to navigation.
		Although these days life on the river is dominated by holiday cruise boats and floating restaurants, there is also another side, people live there.
		In the distance is Wensum Lodge, the adult education centre, and on the right, the Waterfront music venue.
	www.pastonroot.co.uk /derek/river.htm (182 words)

	Norfolk Mills - Fakenham watermill
		The watercourse of the old river was significantly altered in order to accommodate the mill's position and to enable a sufficient size of dam to work the mill.
		This new cut along with the original river course are both shown on a 1650 map.
		Joseph Foyson, and is situated below the town, on the River Wensum, which is crossed by a handsome bridge of three arches, built in 1883, of white brick, with stone parapets and iron palisades.
	www.norfolkmills.co.uk /Watermills/fakenham.html (938 words)

	naca river fisheries
		owner's request, which is well suited to the small nature of the river and the swims on offer.
		Comparatively under fished, this fishery has season tickets available and is intended to be taken on as NACA’s next ambitious river habitat restoration project with a view to restoring it as a roach fishery.
		Once well known as one of England’s finest specimen barbel and chub fisheries, this stretch of river has more recently suffered from the effects of over-abstraction of water for the potable water supply.
	www.norfolkanglers.com /fisheries_main_page/river_fisheries.html (318 words)

	Fly fishing news - Bintry Mill, Norfolk
		The survey of the river Wensum between Bintry Mill and County School on behalf of the Bintry Mill Trout Fishery was presented to the Environment Agency (EA) in the hope that the Agency would support and possibly provide some funding for the work proposed.
		Over the last few seasons the numbers of wild brown trout in this stretch of the Wensum have been increasing and it is hoped that the works will increase the amount of habitat suitable for mature wild trout to spawn as well as providing further stretches of nursery waters for the juvenile fish.
		The Bintry Mill Trout Fishery is one of four fisheries in the county set-up by the Norfolk branch of the Salmon and Trout Association to provide quality river and stillwater trout fishing for members of the Association.
	www.fishandfly.co.uk /bintry0100.html (428 words)

	The Wild Trout Trust: River Wensum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The River Wensum between its source and Costessey was designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1993, in recognition of its status as probably the best example of an enriched lowland river in England.
		River Rehabilitation Feasibility Study of the River Wensum
		This Advisory Unit visit was financed by English Nature.
	www.wildtrout.org /wtt/projects/AU11.asp (124 words)

	Paddling in Norfolk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		There are 40 miles of canoeable river, from Dunton Bridge 4 miles above Fakenham (and it certainly has been canoed above that), down to Norwich and the tidal limits.
		The river is tidal from here and a license is needed - BCU membership covers this or contact the Broads Authority.
		At Brundall all access to the river is privately owned, there is no public access and very little parking space, you may like to try one of the boatyards there but they will probably want to charge you for parking, etc.
	fp.suescanoes.f9.co.uk /interest.htm (1375 words)

	The Wensum Lodge Hotel-The Best Country Hotel In Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The crystal clear River Wensum tumbles right past the front terrace and under an ancient bridge; trout glide lazily beneath furiously paddling ducks; a little stream gurgles through the rear garden; yet the busy market square
		It was converted to award winning flats and penthouses, but it was the old grain store which took on a new lease of life in 1983 when it opened as a restaurant, subsequently becoming the Wensum Lodge Hotel.
		Curiously the River Wensum does not flow at the bottom of the valley, but it remains a mystery as to why its course was altered.
	subscriber.scoot.co.uk /wensum_lodge_hotel (292 words)

	Description of Costessey in 1841
		In the two river valleys, layers of alluvium were deposited, more so in the Wensum valley (72 miles long) than along the lesser stream the Tud (24 miles long).
		Across the road is a large house named 'Wensum Cottage' owned by John Culley and leased by Richard Mackenzie Bacon owner and editor of the "Norwich Mercury" The next residence of note was that of the house, garden and 'pleasure ground' of Joseph Stannard on the corner of The Croft.
		Near the bank of the river is the " BUSH" Public house, another Steward and Patteson house (in his autobiography artist Alfred Munnings called the BUSH " an establishment of lesser fame- a haunt of harpies of the lower world, connected with the trotting fraternity of Norwich".
	home.it.net.au /~barleys/descrip.htm (4174 words)

	Norfolk Mills - Hempton watermill
		After the war, the mill became derelict and was finally demolished in June 1954 by the East Suffolk and Norfolk Drainage Board to improve land drainage in the area by lowering the river level by 1½ to 2 feet.
		By 1958 all that remained were the mill house and brick foundations of the mill.
		The river, the Wensum, was a pale shadow of its former self.
	www.norfolkmills.co.uk /Watermills/hempton.html (592 words)

	Norwich -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Wensum was a convenient exporting route to the sea.
		By the middle of the 14th century the City Walls, about 2 1/2 miles long had been completed, these alongwith the river enclosed a large area, larger than that of the City of London.
		Nearby the football stadium is being upgraded with more property development alongside the river Wensum.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/no/norwich.htm (3013 words)

	The Costessey Point Project, River Wensum Barbel Fishery and Habitat Restoration Project
		The Wensum is not an isolated river in this, there are likely to be others that have suffered similar neglect and abuse and in need of some tender loving care to get them back to an acceptable quality.
		Often the material from the dredging operations is left as a spoil heap on the river bank......
		The roach populations for which the river was nationally famous for had all but disappeared and now, at Costessey, the barbel were in real trouble, with very few juvenile fish to replace the leviathans as they died off.......
	www.norfolkanglers.com /wensum (1261 words)

	historical norwich > modern norwich > river wensum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		There are many beauty spots along the banks of the river, such as the 15th century water gate, known as Pull's Ferry in the Cathedral Close.
		The Wensum, which divides the city in two, is one of the best features of the city.
		To the east the Wensum joins the Yare which enters the sea at Yarmouth, the ancient port of entry for anyone trading with Norwich by sea.
	www.historicalnorwich.co.uk /wensum.htm (405 words)

	Guide The Rivers Yare Wensum & Waveney East Anglia UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		It may be difficult to turn in the narrow river so turn well upstream or down depending on the tide giving yourself plenty of time.
		The Southern rivers are no more difficult to manage than the northern ones, with a bit of thought and much quieter, which is nice.
		The river splits here, to the north is Geldeston dyke leading to the village with an attractive village pub.
	www.norfolkbroads.com /water/yare.htm (2728 words)

	NAFAC providing consultation for coarse, game fishing and fisheries in the UK
		Geographically the Broads Authority’s (BA) Executive Area covers an area approximately 300 km 2 and extends along the lower valleys of the Rivers Bure, Yare and Waveney together with the two tributaries of the Bure, the Ant and Thurne and the tributary of the River Yare, which is the Chet.
		The work undertaken on the restoration of this stretch of the River Wensum is now almost complete and now awaits natures help in restoring the natural habitat previously destroyed by man and the introduction of fresh brood stock to enhance the natural barbel stocks.
		A change to the flow of the river will improve conditions for a wider range of invertebrates and aquatic plants to colonise and thrive, and help to provide increased spawning and foraging habitat for dace, bullhead, chub, brown trout, brook lamprey and barbel.
	www.nafac.co.uk /nonmembers/fap-folder/anglian-faps.html (776 words)

	Broads Authority-Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The final phase of a three year winter programme to dredge the River Wensum right into the heart of Norwich will begin in early November.
		The project to dredge the silted up Wensum to a depth of 1.5m at low water is being undertaken by the Broads Authority, with funding from the East of England Development Agency, and the Environment Agency.
		The River Wensum, which used to have a depth of 3m at low water, has been gradually silting up since the 1970s with the decline of trading coasters to the city.
	www.broads-authority.gov.uk /broads/pages/press49.htm (323 words)

	River Wensum Death â“ Appeal To Hackney Cab Drivers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Police are appealing for information from taxi cab drivers in connection with the inquiry into the murder of a 31-year-old Norwich man last month (July 2005).
		The body of David Lucas, of Stracey Road, was pulled from the River Wensum near to Whitefriars Bridge in Norwich on the morning of Saturday, July 2, after it was spotted by a member of the public.
		Norfolk Constabulary has teamed up with colleagues from other police forces and partner agencies to launch a new initiative aimed at reducing the number of drug related deaths in the region.
	www.norfolk.police.uk /article.cfm?artID=5959&catID=638 (521 words)

	The Wensum Lodge Hotel, Bridge Street, Fakenham presented by A1 Tourism
		The crystal clear waters of the River Wensum passes the hotel's front terrace and flows on under the ancient bridge.
		Trout glide lazily beneath furiously paddling ducks, a stream gurgles through the rear garden of the hotel and yet the busy Market Square of Fakenham is just three minutes walk away.
		Inn 1983, the Old Grain Store took on a new lease of life when it opened as a restaurant, subsequently becoming The Wensum Lodge Hotel.
	www.a1tourism.com /uk/wensumlodge.html (542 words)

	Medieval English urban history - Slide show - Norwich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The River Wensum flowed in one direction into the Yare, which in turn provided quick access to the sea and thereby to coastal trade (and other rivers flowing into northern Norfolk and Suffolk), to foreign ports, and to the fishing-grounds of the North Sea.
		It nourished not only commerce but also excellent meadow-lands for grazing livestock, while it and the streams that ran off it fed corn-fields and served the development of local industries such as (at different periods) the manufacture of pottery and the finishing of cloth.
		In addition the river provided an obstacle to hostile forces, making it unnecessary to extend city walls along the southeastern stretch of the city, where the Wensum acted as the boundary.
	www.trytel.com /~tristan/towns/ssp02.html (313 words)

	Medieval English urban history - Norwich - Origins
		After the arrival of the Danes, the less densely settled points were populated and a more continuous settlement pattern emerges; this trend may have reached its zenith in the first half of the eleventh century – certainly the archaeological finds so far have been richer from that period.
		The spread of settlement from the Conesford core was primarily directed southwards, along Southgate, and then up the slope away from the river, towards Berstrete ridge – houses there were later destroyed to make room for the castle.
		Between the western focus for settlement at St. Benedict's and the pair of eastern foci, the Danes settled along west Holmstrete and later spread southwards to Pottergate, following the courses of the cockeys.
	www.trytel.com /~tristan/towns/norwich1.html (1919 words)

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