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[[File:Bridge over River Derwent - geograph.org.uk - 1516114.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The River Derwent at Blackhall Mill]]
The '''River Derwent''' is a river of 35 miles on the border between [[County Durham]] and [[Northumberland]].  It ultimately becomes a tributary of the [[River Tyne]], which river has already by then assumed the duty of marking the county border.

The Derwent rises in the [[Pennines]], formed by the joining of two becks a mile west of [[Blanchland]].  It broadens into the Derwent Reservoir, west of [[Consett]]. On its journey, the river flows through places such as [[Allensford]], [[Shotley Bridge]], [[Blackhall Mill]] and [[Rowlands Gill]]. Until a little above Blackhall Mill, it forms the county border (after which the border heads off north on its own to the [[Stanley Burn]] and to the Tyne, levaing the lower reaches of the Derwent within County Durham).

The Derwent joins the [[River Tyne]] at Derwenthaugh, near the [[Gateshead]] MetroCentre.

==Name==
The name Derwent comes from the Old Welsh word for oak, ''derw'', and is found as the name of a number of rivers of the north and Midlands.

[[File:River from bridge - geograph.org.uk - 550097.jpg|thumb|left|200px|The Derwent]]
==Miscellany==
The river is known locally as "The Divvy". [[Derwent Park (Rowlands Gill)|Derwent Walk Country Park]] named after it is at Rowlands Gill.

Fishing permits on the river are usually priced at £3.00 on each stretch.

==Outside links==
* [http://swalwellonline.co.uk/Swalwell_Photographs_1.htm Derwent Photographs]
* [http://bridgesonthetyne.co.uk/intro2.html Bridges On The Derwent]

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[[Category:Rivers of County Durham]]
[[Category:Rivers of Northumberland]]