River Salwarpe
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The River Salwarpe is a river just over twenty miles long in Worcestershire. It is a left bank tributary of the River Severn, which it joins near Hawford.
Course
The Salwarpe is formed by the confluence of the Battlefield and Spadesbourne Brooks in Bromsgrove, it then passes Stoke Prior, Upton Warren, Wychbold, Droitwich. Downstream of Droitwich, it passes Salwarpe, and then meets the River Severn, near Hawford.
Andrew Yarranton attempted unsuccessfully to make the river navigable in the 1660s, but in the 21st century a stretch of the river in Droitwich was canalized to link the Barge and Junction sections of the Droitwich Canal.[1]
Tributaries include the Elmbridge, Hadley and Hen brooks.
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References
- ↑ "Restoration of the Droitwich Canals Non Technical Summary" (PDF). British waterways. Archived from the original on 24 September 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100924192725/http://britishwaterways.co.uk/media/documents/Droit_Restoration_Non_Technical_Summary.pdf. Retrieved 6 November 2017.