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<poem>For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly war-flame spread, The fisher left his skiff to rock on [[River Tamar|Tamar's]] glittering waves: ...

'''Iffley Lock''' is a lock on the [[River Thames]] near the village of [[Iffley]], [[Oxfordshire]]. It is on the sout ...ntary enquiry reported that cows and horses were sometimes driven into the river to create sufficient draught. The lock was repaired in 1866, and ten years ...

[[File:Stratford-on-avon river 15a07.JPG|right|thumb|350px|The Avon by the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stra ...lands]] river 85 miles long, flowing across the southern Midlands to the [[River Severn|Severn]]. It rises just inside [[Northamptonshire]] and thence pass ...

[[File:Lopwell Dam on the River Tavy - geograph.org.uk - 1533352.jpg|thumb|Lopwell weir, highest point of n [[File:River Tavy - geograph.org.uk - 698852.jpg|thumb|Kayaking on the Tavy]] ...

...iver Tale near Cadhay - geograph.org.uk - 179377.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The River Tale near Cadhay]] ...opes of the [[Blackdown Hills]], and finally becoming a tributary of the [[River Otter]]. ...

...east are divided from the Stack's Mountains by the valley of the Smearlagh River.<ref name="KY03" /><ref name="coco" /><ref name="sheet162">[http://www.geol ...the four-mile "Mass Path and River Walk" along the banks of the Smearlagh River, and the ten mile "Fionn MacCumhaill" trek through open countryside and Coi ...

|picture=Marble Hill House-River(south)front.jpg |picture caption=Marble Hill House, river front ...

...ur is claimed by [[Navan]]. St Patrick's Cathedral is located north of the river; reputedly Ireland's oldest. On the [[River Boyne]] banks, Trim became one of the most important Hiberno-Norman settlem ...

...rrey]], and its 60-acre estate along the bank of the north branch of the [[River Wey]]. It in the former chapelry of [[Compton, Farnham|Compton]]. ...Compton Hall'''. It was home to philosophical writer and satirist Jonathan Swift at the end of the seventeenth century; and served as a hydrotherapy retreat ...

...gle carriageways and green space footpaths along the north branch of the [[River Wey]] which in part marks the northern boundary of the area together with t ...m Moor Park House the former mansion of Sir William Temple, where Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels lived and worked which is a listed building i ...

[[File:Carmarthenshire County Hall from across Towy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|River Towy At Carmarthen]] ...two longest rivers flowing entirely within [[Wales]], (the other is the [[River Teifi]]) with a total length of 75 miles. It is noted for its sea trout and ...

|picture caption=Arnside on the River Kent ...ge in the very south of [[Westmorland]]. It stands on the estuary of the [[River Kent]] on the north-eastern corner of [[Morecambe Bay]], within the spur of ...

[[File:River Spey.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The River Spey at Aberlour]] ...verness-shire]] (at [[Loch Spey]]; {{map|NN419937}}) and flows down with a swift stream, its lower reaches forming the border between [[Morayshire]] and [[B ...

...a mile south of [[Beaufort, County Kerry|Beaufort]], to the south of the [[River Laune]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mwGFAAAAIAAJ ...T|title=Ogam Stones and the Earliest Irish Christians|first=Catherine|last=Swift|date=26 August 1997|publisher=Department of Old and Middle Irish, St. Patri ...

[[File:River_Irk.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The River Irk, swollen by rain, in Newtown]] The '''River Irk''' is a river of [[Lancashire]] that flows through the industrial and post-industrial tow ...

...and weir combinations are used for controlling the flow of water down the river, most notably when there is a risk of flooding, and provide for navigation {{citation|first=Frank L.|last=Dix|title=Royal River Highway|year=1985|page=12|publisher=David & Charles, Newton Abbott}} ...

...e a grass meadow now frequently grazed over by small flocks of sheep. The river though is still moving and may in coming years swamp the meadow once more. ...alk across the sands, but even then the sands are treacherous and the tide swift, and without an experienced guide, setting forth on the footpath will often ...

|crosses= [[River Thames]] '''Abingdon Bridge''' crosses the [[River Thames]] at the town of [[Abingdon]], [[Berkshire]]. It carries the A415 ro ...

...able land by means of systematic drainage using a collection of drains and river diversions. In the 1630s thousands of Puritan families from East Anglia set [[File:Deepest Suffolk - geograph.org.uk - 224461.jpg|right|thumb|150px|The River Dove in Suffolk]] ...

The town sits on the river [[Six Mile Water]] with Craig Hill providing a wooded backdrop to the east. ...ed and others are blank indicating an 'industry' and trading here near the river crossing over four thousand years ago. ...