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  Encyclopedia: River Thames   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The River Loddon is a tributary of the River Thames.
The River Ravensbourne is a tributary of the River Thames.
The River Darent is a Kentish tributary of the River Thames in England.
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 River Westbourne - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The River Westbourne is a river in London, England.
At this point, the river was known until the early nineteenth century as the Bayswater rivulet and from that it gave its name to the area now known as Bayswater.
The river enters Hyde Park at what is now the Serpentine, which was formed in 1730 by building a dam across the Westbourne at the instigation of Queen Caroline, wife of George II, in order to beautify the royal park.
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 River Westbourne -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The River Westbourne is a river in (A division of the United Kingdom) England.
At this point, the river was known until the early nineteenth century as the (Click link for more info and facts about Bayswater) Bayswater rivulet and from that it gave its name to the area now known as Bayswater.
The pipe is the original pipe constructed in the nineteenth century because, although the station was badly bombed during the (The prolonged bombardment of British cities by the German Luftwaffe during World War II and the aerial combat that accompanied it) Battle of Britain in November 1940, the old iron pipe remained miraculously undamaged.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ri/river_westbourne.htm   (858 words)

  
 THE GLACIAL LAKE AGASSIZ--Chapter XI
Ice on the Red River closed the season of navigation at Moorhead and Fargo in the years 1881 to 1888 at dates which range from the 11th to the 25th of November; and navigation was opened, with the breaking up and departure of the ice, at dates from the 12th to the 24th of April.
Among the shrubs that reach to the borders of the Red River basin, but not farther westward, or at least southwestward, are the fl alder or winterberry, the mountain holly, the staghorn sumach, the hardback, the huckleberry, the dwarf blueberry and the tall or swamp blueberry, leatherwood, and sweet fern.
In the Red River Valley this hope was fostered by the occurrence of combustible gas issuing from wells in the drift in Arthur Township, Traverse County, at Argyle, and in section 10, Wanger, Marshall County, Minn., and near Argusville and Gardner, at Hillsboro, near Cummings, and near Mayville, in North Dakota.
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 WESTBOURNE GROVE FACTS AND INFORMATION
Although Westbourne Grove was constructed as part of the westward expansion of London in the 1840's, Westbourne is a genuinely local name, and goes back to the middle ages, long before the land had been built on as residential property.
The area to the west was Westbourne, (in Old English Westan Burnan) because it was west of the river or bourne.
Although Westbourne was a place west of a river, this was eventually forgotten and in the nineteenth century the river itself became known as the River_Westbourne.
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 Encyclopedia: River-Westbourne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The River Westbourne is a river in England.
The River Fleet is the largest of Londons subterranean rivers.
Subterranean rivers of London The subterranean or underground rivers of London are the tributaries of the River Thames that were built over in the growth of the metropolis of London.
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 River Thames   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The whole of the River Thames drains a catchment area of some 12935 square kilometres (4994 square miles) (or 15343 square kilometres (5924 square miles) if the River Medway is included as a tributary of the River Thames).
The river followed a path through Buckinghamshire, the southern part of Hertfordshire and Essex, running from the area of modern Staines up the valley of the River_Colne, Hertfordshire Colne to Hatfield and then eastward across Essex towards the primeval Rhine.
Image:CanalettoSomersetHouseTerrace.jpgthumbleft300pxView of the River Thames from the terrace at Somerset House, by CanalettoAntonio Canaletto/
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 The Swiftstone Trust,. Past, present, future, on the Thames.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In 1858 there was a long hot summer and the river began to smell in a way that was almost unbearable for the politicians who had to work next to it.
Nobody would describe the river today as crystal clear, the reason for this is the mud and silt which is constantly disturbed by the action of the tides and boats.
The water itself is, for a large urban river, quite clean and if you were to take a glass of river water and allow it to settle, the water would be fairly clear.
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 River Thames biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Part of the area west of London is sometimes termed the Thames Valley whilst east of Tower Bridge development agencies and Ministers have taken to using the term Thames Gateway.
About 90 kilometres from the sea, upstream of London, the river begins to exhibit tidal activity from the North Sea.
In the late 1990s, the 12km long Jubilee River was built, which acts as a flood channel for a section of the Thames around Maidenhead and Windsor.
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 Dayspring in the Far West, by M.E. Johnson (1875)
The Red River Settlement dates from the year 1811, when the Earl of Selkirk purchased from the Hudson's Bay Company and the Cree and Saulteaux Indians a large tract of land stretching along both banks of the Red River and the Assi-niboine.
Westbourne is on the White Mud River, and is so named after the Rev. John West, the pioneer of Missionary enterprise in North-West America.
In every direction along the banks of distant rivers, which fall either into the Polar Sea on the north, the Pacific on the west, Hudson's Bay on the east, and Lake Winnipeg in the interior, the ministers of Christ have gone forth to spread the glad tidings of salvation.
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 River Westbourne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The River Westbourne, of similar size to the Fleet, is ariver in England that flows from Hampstead down through Hyde Park to Sloane Square and into the Thames at Chelsea.
According to Victorian pedants, the river was originally called the Kilburn (Cye Bourne - royal stream) but has been known, at different times and in different places, as Kelebourne, Kilburn, Bayswater,Bayswater River, Bayswater Rivulet, Serpentine River, Westburn Brook, the Ranelagh River and the Ranelagh Sewer.
The conduit through which the Westbourne crosses the platforms of Sloane Square station is a large cast iron pipe, locatedjust below the ceiling towards the end of the platforms closest to the exits.
www.therfcc.org /river-westbourne-111547.html   (214 words)

  
 CHELSEA, LONDON FACTS AND INFORMATION
The King's Road was named for Charles II, recalling the king’s private road from St James's Palace to Fulham, which was maintained until the reign of George IV.
According to ''Encyclopædia_Britannica'' "the better residential portion of Chelsea is the eastern, near Sloane Street and along the river; the western, extending north to Fulham Road, is mainly a poor quarter".
The memorials in the churchyard of St Luke near the river, known as the Old Church, illustrate much of the history of Chelsea.
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 Westbourne
Westbourne is a small village, 35 km north west of Portage la Prairie, north of the junction of Highway #16 (Yellowhead Route), off the Trans-Canada Highway.
It is a busy little community, with special suppers, banquets, catering, and a ball tournament in July, the annual Fall Supper in October, and dances.
Originally, the central mound was 67 x 97 feet in diameter and 8 to 9 feet high, with two linear rides about 400 feet long, a foot and a half high, and 30 to 36 feet across, running in opposite directions.
www.echoesandlegends.com /Westbourne.htm   (492 words)

  
 CHRISTOPHER A LONG - Kensington Gardens   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
They extended east too and it was Anne who saw the possibilities of using the River Westbourne to create a series of lakes and ponds through the formal layout of avenues, box hedges and geometric flower beds.
All that remains of her plans are the now slightly altered Round Pond, Queen Anne's Alcove near the fountains at the head of the Serpentine, and the curious little pavilion that was only recently rediscovered hidden inside a Victorian gardener's cottage due east of the round pond.
She too saw the potential value of the River Westbourne and created the Serpentine –; a broad, sweeping curve of water held back by a dam at the eastern end of what is now Hyde Park.
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 London Town
London Town has also undertaken to create inter-tidal terraces on the corner of the rivers Thames and Wandle to provide a haven for wildlife and in the place of two old jetties, which are currently inhabited by shags, cormorants and herons, four bird barges are to be provided.
The composition of this residential scheme evolves from the proximity to the River and addresses the sweep of the river bank at this point along the Thames.
The design of the elevation to the river has a system of layers that allow a Brise Soleil façade giving enclosure to the glazed Winter Gardens to the riverside of the living areas in each of the apartments.
www.londontownplc.co.uk /Developments.html   (809 words)

  
 Tyburn (stream) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The Tyburn is a stream in London, which runs underground from South Hampstead through St.
James's Park to meet the River Thames at Vauxhall.
Before it was covered over, the Tyburn originally arose from the confluence of two precursor streams from the hills of Hampstead.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/River_Tyburn   (273 words)

  
 Waterways - Derelict London
River Tyburn flowed through the area from South Hampstead to the Thames.
The river system of the Lower Lea is, according to the Environment Agency, extremely complex and is very important in terms of its flood relief function.
A benefit of a successful bid, it is claimed, will be the removal of invasive species from the waterways and the clean-up of the River Lea (doubtful, given that they are not looking at Deephams because it is outside the Olympic zone).
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 River Cray -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The River Cray is a tributary of the (Click link for more info and facts about River Darent) River Darent in southern (A division of the United Kingdom) England.
The villages through which it flows are collectively known as The Crays.
There is a signposted public footpath called the Cray Riverway alongside the river, beginning at Foots Cray Meadows and continuing for 10 miles (about 16 km) northwards to the Thames.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/R/Ri/River_Cray.htm   (138 words)

  
 The parish of Chelsea: Introduction | British History Online
It is one of the smaller inner London parishes, lying in the Kensington Division of Ossulstone Hundred, and bounded by the detached part of St Margaret Westminster on the north, St George Hanover Square on the east, the river Thames and Fulham on the south, Fulham on the south-west, and Kensington on the north-west.
Ten acres by the river near the Royal Hospital belonged to Kensington parish, which may account for the 770 a.
A wide band of alluvium along the eastern side of the parish marks the course of the Westbourne down to the Thames by Ranelagh Gardens, and a narrow band on the west marks Counter's Creek, widening out at the southern end to include the land on the south side of Lots Road.
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 River Westbourne Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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 The Groundwater Diaries | By Tim Bradford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Westbourne, a river of similar size to the Fleet, flowed from Hampstead down through Hyde Park to Sloane Square and into the Thames at Chelsea.
But one name for the stream that the historians have mostly ignored, in their race to be right, is the one that is perhaps the most apt - the River of Punk.
For, back in the mid to late seventies, a wealth of bands sprang up around the Westbourne's banks and in the pubs and clubs that mark its course.
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 Province of Manitoba | General Page
The objective of the study was to gain a better understanding of water quality in the Whitemud River and it's tributaries (Figure 1) and to better define the causes of water quality changes that occur along the river.
There was only one exceedence of the objective and this occurred at the site on the Whitemud River at Arden on June 10, 1997 (Table 1, Appendix 1, and Figure 5).
With the exception of nitrate-nitrite and dissolved phosphorus, other nitrogen compounds and total phosphorus tended to be lower in the Whitemud River at Westbourne than at the site on Boggy Creek at Neepawa (Table 1).
www.gov.mb.ca /conservation/pub-archive/publs98/rep9804.html   (2166 words)

  
 Westbourne Guest House, Bed & Breakfasts Inverness, Scotland Bed & Breakfasts, Highland Bed & Breakfasts
Situated on the west bank of the River Ness in Inverness.
Westbourne was built in 1998 as a purpose built Guest House with all modern extras as standard.
Westbourne is five minutes walk from City Centre and an array of Restaurants, Pubs & entertainment.
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 Subterranean rivers of London   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The subterranean rivers of London are the tributaries of the River Thames that were built over in the growth of the metropolis of London, England.
Many London localities started their existence as small villages along these rivers, and their place names still reflect their origin.
Beowulf was put together also knew, -- Froda was king of the and Saxon tribes on the continent), and had fallen in fight with.
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 Rivers of Great Britain - Pictures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Rivers of England, Scotland and Wales, organised geographically, taken anti-clockwise, from Land's End are included.
For Northern Irish rivers see the Rivers of Ireland article.
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.
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 Westbourne Guest House, Bed & Breakfasts Inverness, Scotland Bed & Breakfasts, Highland Bed & Breakfasts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Situated on the west bank overlooking the River Ness in Inverness the Capital of the Highlands of Scotland.
See some of the largest Bottlenosed Dolphins in the world on a Moray Firth Cruise.Balnain House the Home of Highland Music is only one minutes walk away.Castles,Gardens,Walks,Distillery tours,the train ride to Kyle of Lochalsh is said to be one of the most scenic and impressive in the world.
Westbourne was built in 1998 as a purpose built Guest House offering our guests modern facilities but built in the old style to keep in context with the surrounding area.
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 River Westbourne on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
This is the pipe carryiing the hidden River Westbourne - it's about 10 feet wide, with a curved base.
The conduit carrying the River Westbourne across Sloane Square tube station.
I know the westbourne emerges at the head of the serpentine (before going underground again).
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