Trent Falls
Trent Falls | |
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 Alkborough Flatsand Trent Falls | |
  Trent Falls Location inLincolnshire | |
| Coordinates:53°42′02″N0°41′28″W/ 53.700467°N 0.691109°W | |
| Grid position | SE86162310 |
| Location | Lincolnshire,England |
Trent Fallsis theconfluenceof theRiver Ouseand theRiver Trentwhich forms theHumberbetweenLincolnshireand theEast Riding of YorkshireinEngland.
Location
[edit]The River Ouse flows to the east where it turns into the Humber, and the River Trent flows northwards. It curves to the east near the confluence, although this is largely engineered, rather than natural. A training wall was built on the western bank of the Trent after theFirst World War,in an attempt to keep the channel in a known position. The rivers deposit large volumes of silt in this area, and charts for coastal shipping have to be updated monthly, but for smaller vessels, the channel can be considered to be reasonably static.[1]
Despite the training wall and a mini-lighthouse called 'Apex Light' which is situated at the end of the wall,[1]navigation at Trent Falls is not simple. There are no real waterfalls, but there is a very rapid race of water at difficult stages of the tide (especiallyspring tides), and there is atidal boreon the Trent (theTrent Aegir). Boats coming down one river with an ebbing tide often have to wait several hours (sometimes beached on the sand, and sometimes overnight) until the tide turns and the flood can carry them up the other river.
TheRSPB'sBlacktoft Sandsnature reserve lies immediately upstream of the Falls, on the south bank of the Ouse. It is formed from the largest tidal reedbed in England, and is visited by 270 species of birds, including breeding pairs ofbearded tits,Eurasian bitternsandmarsh harriers,for which it is of national importance.[2]Overlooking Trent Falls from a hill a mile away to the east isJulian's Bower,an ancientturf mazeon the edge of theLincolnshirevillage ofAlkborough.It dates from at least 1697, when Abraham de la Pryme recorded it, although the reasons for its creation are now uncertain.[3]
Bibliography
[edit]- Nicholson(2006).Nicholson Guides Vol 6: Nottingham, York and the North East.Harper Collins.ISBN978-0-00-721114-2.
References
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Media related toTrent Fallsat Wikimedia Commons
- ^abNicholson 2006,pp. 164–165
- ^"About Blacktoft Sands".RSPB. 10 April 2012.Retrieved21 April2012.
- ^"Julian's Bower".Stone Circles.Retrieved21 April2012.