Culture, Rivers and River Systems in England and Wales, Severn Estuary, River Severn

 River Severn River Stour Worcestershire River Teme River Clun River Corve River Onny Warwickshire River Avon River Leam River Sowe River Stour Warwickshire

River Severn is in Severn Estuary.

The River Severn rises on Plynlimon [Map] after which it passes Llanidloes [Map], Caersws [Map], Welshpool [Map], Crew Green [Map], Shrawardine [Map], Shrewsbury [Map], Wroxeter [Map], Coalport, Shropshire [Map], Bridgnorth [Map], Bewdley [Map], Stourport-on-Severn [Map] to Worcester [Map]

From Worcester the rivers flows through Upton-upon-Severn [Map] to Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire [Map] where it is joined by the Warwickshire River Avon, Gloucester, Gloucestershire [Map] becoming the Severn Estuary around Thornwell [Map].

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Gildas. 3. The island of Britain, situated on almost the utmost border of the earth, towards the south and west, and poised in the Divine balance, as is said, which supports the whole world, stretches out from the southwest towards the North Pole, and is eight hundred miles long and two hundred broad, except where the headlands of sundry promontories stretch farther into the sea. It is surrounded by the ocean, which forms winding bays, and is strongly defended by this ample and, if I may so call it, impassable barrier, save on the south side, where the narrow sea affords a passage to Belgic Gaul. It is enriched by the mouths of two noble rivers, the Thames and the Severn, as it were two arms, by which foreign luxuries were of old imported, and by other streams of less importance. It is famous for eightand-twenty cities, and is embellished by certain castles, with walls, towers, well-barred gates, and houses with threatening battlements built on high, and provided with all requisite instruments of defence. Its plains are spacious, its hills are pleasantly situated, adapted for superior tillage, and its mountains are admirably calculated for the alternate pasturage of cattle, where flowers of various colours, trodden by the feet of man, give it the appearance of a lovely picture. It is decked, like a man's chosen bride, with divers jewels, with lucid fountains, and abundant brooks wandering over the snowwhite sands; with transparent rivers, flowing in gentle murmurs, and offering a pledge of sweet slumber to those who recline upon their banks, whilst it is irrigated by abundant lakes, which pour forth cool torrents of refreshing water.

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Plynlimon [Map] is the source of both the River Severn and River Wye.

Culture, Rivers and River Systems in England and Wales, Severn Estuary, River Severn, River Stour Worcestershire

The River Stour Worcestershire rises in the Clent Hills [Map] and near Romsley [Map] after which it passes Halesowen [Map], Cradley [Map], Stourbridge [Map], Stourton [Map], Cookley [Map], Wolverley [Map] and Kidderminster [Map] before joining the River Severn at Stourport-on-Severn [Map].

Culture, Rivers and River Systems in England and Wales, Severn Estuary, River Severn, River Teme

The River Teme rises around three miles south of Dolfor [Map] in Powys. For much of its upper course it forms the border between England and Wales. It passes through, or near, Felindre, Radnoshire [Map], Knighton, Radnorshire [Map], Leintwardine [Map], Bromfield, Shropshire [Map], Ludlow [Map], Tenbury Wells [Map], Stanford Bridge [Map], Shelsey Beauchamp [Map], Leigh [Map] and Bransford [Map] after which it joins the River Severn around 3 km south of Worcester [Map].

On 20 Feb 1640 [Members] (age 25) drowned when attempting to cross the River Teme with a friend. He was buried at St Edburga's Church, Leigh [Map].

Leintwardine Bridge [Map] crosses the River Teme just below its confluence with the River Clun. Originally the crossing point of a Roman Road known locally as Watling Street; a spur or extension of Watling Street which terminated at Wroxeter [Map] around thirty-five kilometres north of Leintwardine [Map] and which may have connected Wroxeter to Usk [Map]. The current bridge is around 1850 widened by twelve feet in 1930.

Culture, Rivers and River Systems in England and Wales, Severn Estuary, River Severn, River Teme, River Clun

The River Clun rises near Anchor [Map], 400m from the England and Wales border, after which it travels past Hall in the Forest Clun [Map], Clun Castle [Map] and Clungunford Cravens Arms [Map] before joining the River Teme at Leintwardine [Map].

Culture, Rivers and River Systems in England and Wales, Severn Estuary, River Severn, River Teme, River Corve

The River Corve rises near Bourton [Map] after which is flows south-west past Brockton [Map], Shipton [Map], Hungerford, Shropshire [Map], Culmington, Shropshire [Map]and Stanton Lacy [Map] joining the River Teme at Ludlow [Map].

Culture, Rivers and River Systems in England and Wales, Severn Estuary, River Severn, River Teme, River Onny

The River Onny rise in the Shropshire Hills it is formed by the River West Onny adn River East Onny which converge 500m south of Hardwick [Map]. Thereafter the River Onny passes [Map] and Stokesay Castle [Map] before joining the River Teme at Bromfield, Shropshire [Map].

Culture, Rivers and River Systems in England and Wales, Severn Estuary, River Severn, Warwickshire River Avon

Dow Bridge [Map] is where Watling Street crossed the Warwickshire River Avon.

Culture, Rivers and River Systems in England and Wales, Severn Estuary, River Severn, Warwickshire River Avon, River Leam

Culture, Rivers and River Systems in England and Wales, Severn Estuary, River Severn, Warwickshire River Avon, River Sowe

Culture, Rivers and River Systems in England and Wales, Severn Estuary, River Severn, Warwickshire River Avon, River Stour Warwickshire