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Major rivers draining into Lake Ontario include the Don River ; Humber River ; Trent River ; the Cataraqui River ; the Genesee River ; the Oswego River ; the Black River ; and the Salmon River.
Tostig appears to have received little local support, and further raids into Lincolnshire and near the River Humber met with no more success, so Tostig retreated to Scotland, where he remained for a time.
) At its greatest the kingdom extended at least from just south of the Humber, to the River Mersey and to the Forth ( roughly, Sheffield to Runcorn to Edinburgh ) — and there is some evidence that it may have been much greater ( see map ).
Instead, his ships made for Ravenspurn, near the mouth of the River Humber, where Henry Bolingbroke had landed in 1399 on his way to reclaim the Duchy of Lancaster and ultimately depose Richard II.
Besides the Saint Lawrence River itself, semi-major tributaries of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence include the Miramichi River, the Natashquan River, the Restigouche River, the Margaree River, and the Humber River.
Situated at the end of the River Hull where it meets the Humber
Although the Humber is an estuary from the point at which it is formed, many maps show it as the River Humber.
Below Trent Falls, the Humber passes the junction with the Market Weighton Canal on the north shore, the confluence of the River Ancholme on the south shore ; between North Ferriby and South Ferriby and under the Humber Bridge ; between Barton-upon-Humber on the south bank and Kingston upon Hull on the North bank ( where the River Hull joins ), then meets the North Sea between Cleethorpes on the Lincolnshire side and the long and thin ( but rapidly changing ) headland of Spurn Head to the North.
Following their acquisition of the patent, all English and Welsh lightvessels were maintained by Trinity House, with the exception of the four vessels in the approaches to the River Mersey, which were maintained by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board until 1973, and those in the Humber Estuary, which were the responsibility of the Humber Conservancy Board.

Humber and Newfoundland
The Humber River is a river in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Draining Deer Lake, the Humber is one of the major rivers on the island of Newfoundland, making the Bay of Islands an important estuary.
* Humber River valley ( Newfoundland )
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** Humber River ( Newfoundland ), Newfoundland, Canada
Humber Valley is a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Humber Valley covers some of the best agricultural land in Newfoundland and Labrador, and runs from Deer Lake to just north of Great Harbour Deep.
Humber East is a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Humber West is a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Marshall's son, Tom Marshall is currently an MHA for the riding of Humber East and Minister of Finance in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Pasadena is an incorporated town located in census division 5 which is in the western portion of Newfoundland, Canada and it is a picturesque community on the shores of Deer Lake at the junction of the North Arm Valley and the Humber Valley.
The Western Star is a daily newspaper published weekdays and Saturdays in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and also serving Stephenville and the Bay of Islands, Bay St. George and Humber Valley areas.

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Eadred “ reduced all the land of Northumbria to his control ; and the Scots granted him oaths that they would do all that he wanted .” Moreover, in 947 he convened Archbishop Wulfstan and the Northumbrian witan at Tanshelf ( now in Pontefract, West Yorkshire ), on the boundary of the Humber ( near an old Roman road ), where they pledged their obedience to him.
Ports on the Humber include Kingston upon Hull ( better known as simply Hull ), Grimsby, Immingham, New Holland and Killingholme.
A late 7th-century source, the Tribal Hidage, lists the peoples south of the Humber river ; among the largest groups of peoples are the West Saxons ( later Wessex ), the East Angles and Mercians ( later the Kingdom of Mercia ), and the Kingdom of Kent.
But he was certainly the first to use it on an extensive scale, which he did during the construction of the Humber Dock, Hull ( 1803-9 ), when he devised a steam dredger to overcome the difficulties of that particular work, and apparently without any knowledge of Bentham's invention.
The Aire and Calder still fulfils its original purpose of linking Leeds and Wakefield with York and the Humber ( and thence the Trent ), although the routes by which this is achieved have changed significantly.
The greater part of the area is now administered as the Government Office Regions of the West Midlands and East Midlands, though parts of the traditional Midlands are also in surrounding regions, namely Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ( East of England ), Oxfordshire ( South East ), Gloucestershire ( South West ) and Northern Lincolnshire ( Yorkshire and the Humber ).
The Skandatut ancestral Huron village overlooked the east branch of the Humber River ( Pinevalley Drive ), and was once home to approximately 2000 Huron in the sixteenth century.
The name " Etobicoke " was derived from the Mississauga word wah-do-be-kang ( wadoopikaang ), meaning " place where the alders grow ", which was used to describe the area between Etobicoke Creek and the Humber River.
High schools include Central Etobicoke High School, Etobicoke Collegiate Institute, founded in 1928, Kipling Collegiate Institute, Lakeshore Collegiate Institute ( originally New Toronto Secondary School, founded in 1950 ), Martingrove Collegiate Institute, North Albion Collegiate Institute, Richview Collegiate Institute, founded in 1958, Silverthorn Collegiate Institute, Thistletown Collegiate Institute, West Humber Collegiate Institute, founded in 1966, Etobicoke School of the Arts, founded in 1981 in the former Royal York Collegiate Institute, Scarlett Heights Entrepreneurial Academy ( formerly, Collegiate Institute ), and the School of Experiential Education, an alternative school founded in 1971.
* " The Lakeshore " ( Etobicoke — Lakeshore ); along the north shore of Lake Ontario and the ' Lake Shore Road ' ( now Lake Shore Boulevard West ), comprises three communities that were the first in Etobicoke to urbanize and became separate municipalities during the first half of the 20th century: the Town of Mimico, the Town of New Toronto, Village of Long Branch, and related communities that were never separate from the Township of Etobicoke ; namely, Alderwood ( originally a suburb of New Toronto ), and Humber Bay ( a historic gateway community connecting to Toronto ) which was originally sprawl from the east side of the Humber River that was subsequently split by the construction of Ontario's first motor vehicle ' freeway ' in 1938, which cuts across the top of southern Etobicoke ; ( the Queen Elizabeth Way ).
Pevsner states that the Church tower " re-uses massive blocks of Roman stone ", but these blocks of millstone grit which are to be found in several local churches ( such as neighbouring Winteringham ) may have been transported down the Ouse and the Humber from York where Roman buildings were being dismantled, or may even have come from some sort of triumphal arch or structure ( perhaps like the Arch of Constantine ), which might have stood at the end of Ermine Street.
* Humber ( estuary ), England, on the eastern coast
* Humber River ( Ontario ), Canada, a major river in Toronto with tributaries throughout the Greater Toronto Area
The M180 motorway is a short but major () motorway in England from junction 5 on the M18 motorway in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster to a point close to Humberside Airport some from the ports of Immingham and Grimsby and the east coast and provides access for major routes to Cleethorpes, Grimsby, Hull ( via the Humber Bridge ), Immingham, Lincoln, Scunthorpe and also provides major access for Humberside Airport and the Killingholme Oil Refineries.
The Lakeshore Campus of Humber College is located on the former grounds of the Mimico Lunatic Asylum ( later the Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital ), at the foot of Kipling Avenue.

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In a second departure attempt in the spring of 1608, arrangements were made with a Dutch merchant to pick up church members along the Humber estuary at Immingham near Grimsby, Lincolnshire.
Another hypothesis is: since its name recurs in the name of the " Humber Brook " near " Humber Court " in Herefordshire or Worcestershire, the word humbr-may have been a word that meant " river ", or something similar, in an aboriginal language that had been spoken in England before the Celts migrated there ( compare Tardebigge ).
It then flows through the city of York and the towns of Selby and Goole before joining with the River Trent at Trent Falls, near the village of Faxfleet, to form the Humber Estuary.
The Roman Ridge is believed to form part of an alternative route from Doncaster to York via Castleford and Tadcaster, as a diversion of the major Roman road Ermine Street, which may have been used to avoid having to cross the river Humber near North Ferriby during rough weather conditions over the Humber.
The Humber Bridge, near Kingston upon Hull, England, is a 2, 220 m ( 2, 428 yards ) single-span suspension bridge, which opened to traffic on 24 June 1981.
Prior to the bridge opening, commuters would go from one bank to the other either by using the ferry that ran between Hull and New Holland, Lincolnshire or driving via the M62, M18 and M180 motorways, crossing the River Ouse near Goole ( connected to the Humber ) in the process.
Residential development consists primarily of single-family dwellings, although several large multi-storey hi rise condominium developments have been built in south Etobicoke near the Humber River over the past few years.
The source of the river is located over above sea level in the Staffordshire moorlands, near to the Gritstone escarpment of the Roaches, and next to the A53 Leek to Buxton road and only a few hundred yards away from Black Brook which ultimately, through the Dane and Weaver, flows into the Irish Sea ; however the Churnet, through the Dove, Trent and Humber Estuary ultimately flows into the North Sea.
The main branch runs for about from the Niagara Escarpment in the northwest, while another other major branch, known as the East Humber River, starts at Lake St. George in the Oak Ridges Moraine near Aurora to the northeast.
The first of these, Fort Douville or Magasin Royale, was built in 1688 about 2 km north of Lake Ontario on the Humber near what is today Old Mill.
* The Humber Bridge: Previously the world's longest bridge, the Humber bridge links the counties of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire near the port city of Kingston upon Hull
* January 2-" Humber Railway Disaster " 32 men and boys were killed upon the head on collision of a Grand Trunk Railway commuter train with an unscheduled freight train # 42C near Toronto, Ontario.
The larger homes tend to back onto the Humber Valley ravine and are found along Baby Point Road and Baby Point Crescent, while the smaller homes are found near the Jane Street and Baby Point Road entrance.
The waters of Grenadier Pond, Rennie Pond and the Humber River all are at or near the level of Lake Ontario.
The road restarts east, and then continues north past Barton-upon-Humber and over the Humber Bridge before terminating at Hessle near Kingston upon Hull.
Ermine Street continues north as the B1207, meeting the Humber near Winteringham.
The remaining people fled south where Locrinus allied with Kamber and defeated Humber near a river.
Winterton is near to the banks of the Humber and is south-west of the Humber Bridge which can be seen from many parts of the town.

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