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Bridge over the Wreake in Leicestershire

River Wreake The River Wreake is a river in Leicestershire, which is ultimately a tributary of the River Soar. From its source at Bescaby, about six miles northeast of Melton Mowbray, the river is known as the River Eye, and it becomes the Wreake below Melton Mowbray. Its length is about thirteen miles. The river is never wide nor fast flowing, although it does flood periodically. It drifts through the gentle rolling countryside of north-eastern Leicestershire by fields bounded by hawthorn hedges. There is very little woodland in the area; what is there is largely man-made in the form of fox coverts. (Read more)