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10 unusual facts about River Trent


Compton Acres

The area is a popular residential location for commuters into the centre of Nottingham, approximately three miles away on the north bank of the River Trent, although about 9% of workers are based at home in a growing segment of self-employed workers.

Lady Bay, West Bridgford

Lady Bay is an area of West Bridgford, in Nottinghamshire, England, bounded by the River Trent to the north and the (now disused) Grantham Canal to the south.

Manuscripts and Special Collections, University of Nottingham Information Services

Records of river, drainage and water supply bodies in the East Midlands, including records of the Trent River Catchment Board; Trent River Board; Trent River Authority; Trent Fishery Board; Court of Sewers for the Level of Hatfield Chase; and The Hatfield Chase Corporation; Brigg Court of Lincolnshire Commissioners of Sewers; Trent Navigation Company; Records of the City of Nottingham Water Department; and records from Stoke Bardolph Sewage works and Bulcote Model Farm

North Country Beagle

Chiefly bred in Yorkshire, it was common in the north of England, but below the River Trent the similar Southern Hound was more abundant.

Ratcliffe-on-Soar

Although the village does not contain any shops, it has a church and a marina which is often affected by severe flooding as it built on designated floodplain, just before the Soar joins the River Trent at Trentlock.

Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation

The estimated cost for these improvements was £1,483,426, but the economic circumstances of the time meant that the government was not prepared to support the scheme, and whereas neighbouring Nottingham City Council funded improvements to the River Trent without government support, Sheffield were not prepared to do the same for the Don.

It underwent major changes in the 1620s, when Cornelius Vermuyden closed the channel which crossed Hatfield Chase to reach the River Trent at Adlingfleet, and diverted all of the water northwards to the River Aire.

Tees-Exe line

Similar lines are commonly drawn, for similar purposes, between the Severn Estuary and the Wash, and between the Severn and the mouth of the River Trent.

Trent River

The River Trent is a river of the English Midlands, in the United Kingdom.

Upper Saxondale

Upper Saxondale is located in an upland area set between the River Trent and the Vale of Belvoir and between the A52 road and the A46 road close to their junction at Saxondale Roundabout near Bingham.


Appleby-Frodingham Steel Company

At the time there was no railway east of the River Trent so the ore had to be taken to a wharf at Gunness (or Gunhouse), where it was loaded into barges or taken across the river to join the South Yorkshire Railway’s line from Keadby.

Arnold, Nottinghamshire

Due to the local topography Arnold can never have been a haunt of eagles, because they inhabit areas of rocky outcrops, which have formed cliffs; the nearest such location being Creswell Crags, some 20 miles north-west as the eagle flies, although the fish-eating European White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) could have caught fish in the River Trent, which lies a mere 4 miles south-east of Arnold, on the other side of the Mapperley Plains ridge.

Chesterfield Canal Trust

The Chesterfield Canal Trust Limited is a waterway society and charitable company which campaigns for and undertakes various activities related to the Chesterfield Canal, which runs from Chesterfield in Derbyshire, England to the River Trent at West Stockwith.

De Situ Britanniae

:This province is divided into two equal parts by a chain of mountains called the Pennine Alps, which rising on the confines of the Iceni and Carnabii, near the river Trivona Trent , extend towards the north in a continued series of fifty miles.

Gedling and Carlton railway station

From Gedling and Carlton, the line climbed through Mapperley Tunnel between the Trent and Leen valleys, reaching the first summit of the line at Arno Vale.

Grand Union Canal Carrying Company

For the first time the main line from London to Birmingham and the River Trent were all owned by one company with the exception of the Oxford Canal between Braunston and Napton.

Hellaby

The Humber would have proved an ideal landing point with followers of the Vikings, “helgi” and “mault” (Maltby), sailing up the Rivers Trent and Idle and establishing themselves in the nearby limestone valleys with their clear waters and fertile soil.

Nathaniel Brent

During the early years of William Laud's primacy (1634-7), Brent made a tour through England south of the Trent, acting for the archbishop in his metropolitical visitation of the province of Canterbury, reporting upon and correcting ecclesiastical abuses.

Nicholas Bozon

He was, by his own admission, del ordre de freres menours ("of the order of the Friars Minor"), and probably associated with the Nottingham friary, since he refers in his own writings to the Trent and Derwent rivers.

Nottingham derby

Games between the two clubs are often referred to as Trentside Derbies because of Meadow Lane and the City Ground's proximity to the River Trent.

Publius Ostorius Scapula

He apparently (based on an emendation of a corrupt passage in Tacitus's Annals) declared his intention to disarm all the Britons south and east of the rivers Trent and Severn.

River Tweed, Leicestershire

The river meanders gently through the West Leicestershire flood plains, passing near the villages of Dadlington, Shenton, Sibson and to Ratcliffe Culey where it flows into the River Sence and thenceforth into the River Anker, itself a tributary of the River Trent.

St Nicholas' Church, Littleborough

Littleborough stands on the site of the Roman town of Segelocum (or Agelocum), which was adjacent to a ford crossing the River Trent on the Roman road between Lincoln and York, by way of Doncaster.

Staythorpe Power Station

Staythorpe C Power Station is a 1,735 MWe gas-fired power station between Southwell and Newark-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire, between the River Trent and Nottingham to Lincoln Line.

Tickhill

The River Torne passes close to the south-east of the town where it is the boundary between South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, eventually meeting the River Trent.