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		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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	West Stour - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		West Stour is a small village situated in the Blackmore Vale area of North Dorset, England.
		It is one of a group of villages known as The Stours, located in the River Stour Valley, five miles south of Gillingham.
		West Stour has a village hall, one public house and a service station on the main A30 road.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/West_Stour (142 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Gazetteer (West R-West S) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		West Rasen is a village on the River Rase in Lincolnshire, England.
		West Stoke is a village in West Sussex, England.
		West Stour is a village in Dorset, England.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /GXDB.HTM (651 words)

	River West Stour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The River West Stour is actually named on Ordnance Survey maps as the River Great Stour in Kent.
		It it rises south of the village of Lenham near Maidstone and joins with the River East Stour at Ashford.
		This part of the river flows through rural countryside, passing the villages of Charing Heath and Little Chart (where there is a watermill), before entering Ashford near Great Chart.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/River_West_Stour (125 words)

	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.
		(2) The Kentish Stour or Great Stour rises on the southern face of the North Downs, the branch called the East Stour having its source not far inland from Hythe, but flowing at first away from the sea, while the main or western branch rises near Lenham.
		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.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/ST/STOUR.htm (235 words)

	MINT (PLANT) - LoveToKnow Article on MINT (PLANT) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Timber is floated down the rivers, and tar, pitch, various products of bark, potash, charcoal and timber-ware (wooden dishes, andc.) are manufactured in the villages to a great extent; and ship-building is carried on along the Dnieper, Pripet and Niemen.
		west of Ramsgate, on the South-Eastern and Chatham railway.
		Widsith, the far-traveller, belonged to a tribe which was neighbor to the Angles, and was sent on a mission to the Ostrogoth Eormanric (Hermanric or Ermanaric, d- 375), from whom he received a collar of beaten gold.
	73.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MI/MINT_PLANT_.htm (2780 words)

	STOUR - Online Information article about STOUR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (c.
		The larger branch is joined in the levels by the Little Stour from the south.
		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)

	Canterbury
		On the west it joins the hundred of Westgate, on the north the jurisdiction of Fordwich, and, towards the south and east, the hundred of Bridge and Petham.
		The choir is one of the most spacious in the kingdom, being nearly 200 feet in length, from the west door to the altar, and thirty-eight in breadth between the two side doors.
		One of the two towers at the west end is now (1836) in course of being rebuilt with stone from Caen in Normandy, of which the whole cathedral is constructed, except those pillars which are of Purbeck stone.
	www.oldtowns.co.uk /Kent/canterbury.htm (1861 words)

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		Grayling are not indigenous to the south west, but arrived as part of the fashion for extending the range of the species through artificial stocking that started in the late nineteenth century.
		It is in Wessex, on the River Avon in the Woodford Valley between Amesbury and Salisbury, that I have taken some of my biggest catches of grayling, especially when nymphing in October and November.
		In the south west, grayling are also present in the Bristol Avon, Tone, Brue and Stour, but I have yet to fish for them on these rivers.
	www.gethooked.co.uk /game/grayling/grayling.htm (1093 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 West Stour
		The River West Stour is one of the source rivers of the River Stour, Kent.
		It rises at Lenham[?] near Maidstone and joins with the River East Stour at Ashford to become the River Great Stour.
		The Great Stour then joins the River Little Stour to become the River Stour in Kent.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ri/River_West_Stour.html (72 words)

	River Stour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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)

	The Parish of West Stour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		West Stour is a small parish and one of a collection of three Stour villages situated on the Stour River.
		The parish is bound by Gillingham to the north, East Stour and Stour Provost to the east, Fifehead Magdalen to the south, and Kington Magna to the west.
		The soil is sand and clay and the land is chiefly used as pasture.
	www.dorset-opc.com /WestStour.htm (284 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Stour
		Stour, river, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, and Essex, eastern England; rising as a number of headstreams in south-eastern Cambridgeshire and flowing...
		A broad belt of chalkland known as the Hampshire Downs runs from west to east across the centre of Hampshire, up to 240 m (800 ft) high in places.
		Kent is bisected from west to east by the curve of the North Downs, a chalk ridge that extends from south-west London to the coast at Dover, where it...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Stour.html (102 words)

	River Stour, Kent -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The River Stour is a (A large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)) river in (A county in southeastern England on the English Channel; the first to be colonized by the Romans) Kent, (A division of the United Kingdom) England.
		Some parts of the river in Ashford flood (heavy rainfall) and have made walkways and roads unusable in the past.
		The Great Stour flows through (A town in Kent in southeastern England; site of the cathedral where Thomas a Becket was martyred in 1170; seat of the archbishop and primate of the Anglican Church) Canterbury and Plucks Gutter.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ri/river_stour,_kent.htm (287 words)

	Wormingford: Introduction \| British History Online
		THE ancient parish of Wormingford on the south bank of the river Stour, 6 miles north- west of Colchester and 8 miles south-east of Sudbury (Suff.), covered 2,322 a.
		The ford from which the parish takes its name (originally Withermund's ford) was probably that over the river Stour by the watermill, at the bottom of Church Road, where there is a sand bank in the middle of the river.
		The River Stour Navigation Co. made the Stour navigable for barges from Manningtree to Sudbury between 1705 and 1709, and before 1793 built a canal to bypass Wormingford watermill on the Suffolk side.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=15289 (2531 words)

	In search of the Stour! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It has to be said that the river that gave its name to the town does have a bit of an image problem, first of all, it's only about 25 miles from its source, to where it finally flows into the UK's largest river, the Severn.
		In days gone by levels of pollution were legendary, as the river was a major waste disposal unit for factories in a time when no-one considered the environmental impact.
		The source of the Stour is a small spring close to St Kennelms Church on the Clent Hills, winding its way across open countryside to Halesowen, then through the edge of the famous Black Country, on to Stourbridge, then out through beautiful countryside via Kinver, Cookley, Wolverley and Kidderminster.
	www.stourbridge.co.uk /htm/stourhtm.htm (344 words)

	Journey Along A River - Overflowing Rivers - River Stour - Dorset - Hydrographs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The figures are higher in the north and west of the area and lower in the middle and south.
		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.
	www.swgfl.org.uk /riversa/hgraphs.htm (270 words)

	The Lower Stour - Rural Dorset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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)

	In search of the Stour! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It has to be said that the river that gave its name to the town does have a bit of an image problem, first of all, the River Stour is only about 25 miles from its source, to where it finally flows into the UK's largest river, the River Severn.
		In days gone by levels of pollution were legendary, as the River Stour was a major waste disposal unit for factories in a time when no-one considered the environmental impact.
		The source of the River Stour is a small spring close to St Kennelms Church on the Clent Hills, winding its way across open countryside to Halesowen, then through the edge of the famous Black Country, on to Stourbridge, then out through beautiful countryside via Kinver, Cookley, Wolverley and Kidderminster.
	www.stourbridge.co.uk /htm/stour.htm (379 words)

	Stour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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.
		This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
	www.theezine.net /s/stour.html (64 words)

	River Stour Harbour Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It has a number of sources; one rises in Postling (north of Hythe) as the East Stour and a second in Lenham (south west of Maidstone) as the West Stour, joining together at Ashford to form the Great Stour.
		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 is tidal for some 19 miles from Fordwich and navigable for about the same distance, albeit to sail further up river than Sandwich means coping with bridges and mean depths varying between about 2m down to 0.8m between Grove Ferry and Fordwich
	www.btinternet.com /~kentnet/sailkent/guides/stour.html (175 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)

	Aerial Archaeology
		The defences of this hillfort consists of a single rampart and ditch on the northern end of a spur overlooking the river Stour.
		The construction of the railway in 1857 uncovered a mass-grave of about 120 skeletons, probably the victims of the Roman invasion; part of a Roman shield was also found.
		On the north side across the Stour is the long and thin village of Spetisbury.
	www.wdi.co.uk /air/spetisbu.html (84 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.
		For access to the river Longham was easy enough, at Christchurch you can enter at the public slipway near the rowing club at christchurch quay, by Iford bridge, or a better option is the quieter public slipway by the council offices on bridge street, just off Chrischurch highstreet.
		The weir is a sloping affair with a walled-in chute in the centre.
	www.ukriversguidebook.co.uk /stour.htm (1595 words)

	River Cale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ekwall, in his book English River Names suggests its derivation as 'gwyn' meaning white and 'Cawel' which might mean a shower or hollow or stem or channel from the Welsh, Cornish, Greek or Sanskrit.
		More recently, the Cale was sadly the location of one of the west country's biggest slurry spills, which caused the death of a great deal of river wild life.
		This was one of 14 major pollution accidents to have occurred countrywide in the summer of 2000, exasperating the Environment Agency, anglers and conservationists.
	www.england-in-particular.info /cale.html (723 words)

	The Great Stour Project
		To the north of Castle Hill the chalk strata dip to the north and is reflected in the gradual reduction in altitude and its eventual disappearance under the Ash levels.
		To the west and east, the line of the scarp can be followed toward the Wye Gap and the White Cliffs of Dover respectively.
		The reason why the Downs converge to the west is due to the overall westward thickening of the strata and the regional plunge of the anticline, at an angle of between 1 and 5 degrees, to the west.
	www.naturegrid.org.uk /gtstour/pthorne/pt-geoscen.html (801 words)

	West Stour, Dorset, England
		Located about half-way down the side of Stour Hill, there has been a settlement here for many hundreds of years, but today the hamlet consists of approximately 50-60 houses clustered around the only street in the town, Church Street.
		The limestone church of St. Mary is located about two-thirds of the way through the village on a prominent little knoll.
		The church is still in use today, although services are split between the villages of the Stour group.
	www.thedorsetpage.com /locations/place/W180.htm (147 words)

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