At Wareham it and the River Piddle, also known as the River Trent, flow into Poole Harbour via the Wareham Channel.

Continuing anti-clockwise, heading west around the Harbour are the settlements of Upton and Wareham, as well as the outlet of the River Piddle.

* Gigger's Island is in the west of the Harbour near the River Piddle outlet.

The River Piddle at Piddlehinton

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The town is built on a strategic dry point between the River Frome and the River Piddle at the head of the Wareham Channel of Poole Harbour.

The civil parish of Wareham Town encompasses the walled town of Wareham, situated on the land between the rivers Frome and Piddle, together with the area of Northport to the north of the River Piddle, and a relatively small amount of the surrounding rural area.

* River Piddle, in Dorset, UK, sometimes archaically referred to as the Trent

Puddletown ( formerly Piddletown ) is a village in Dorset, England, 5 miles east of Dorchester in the River Piddle valley.

It is sited at an altitude of 125 metres in the valley of the River Piddle, which has its source just north of the village.

The name of the village was then Awultune, meaning in West Saxon ' village at the source of the river ' ( the River Piddle ).

The top of the downs from above Cerne Abbas looking south east towards the River Piddle valley

The River Piddle runs through the grounds of the Thimble public house in Piddlehinton

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There is a spring which feeds into the River Piddle at the particularly picturesque spot of Mourning Well, reached by a footpath from the Poachers Inn at the Alton Pancras end of the village.

Turners Puddle is a hamlet in Dorset, England, situated on the River Piddle in the Purbeck district, seven miles north west of Wareham.

of formal gardens are encircled by the River Piddle, and consist of eight walled gardens with numerous fountains and pavilions, plus a balustraded terrace, statues, obelisks and vistas through gate piers.

* River Piddle

The bay ends at Trenton ( Quinte West ) and the Trent River, both also on the north side.

The Trent River is part of the Trent-Severn Waterway, a canal connecting Lake Ontario to Lake Simcoe and then Georgian Bay on Lake Huron.

As a leading industrialist, Wedgwood was a major backer of the Trent and Mersey Canal dug between the River Trent and River Mersey, during which time he became friends with Erasmus Darwin.

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.

The River Idle, a tributary of the Trent, is formed in Sherwood Forest from the confluence of several minor streams.

It was centred on the valley of the River Trent and its tributaries in the region now known as the English Midlands.

: The Mercians dwelling south of the River Trent.

: The Mercians dwelling north of the River Trent ( approx.

The three sections between Norton junction and the River Trent ( collectively known as the ' Leicester line ') are mixed in size.

From Leicester to the Trent, the route is effectively the River Soar and the locks and bridges are wide.

Formed by amalgamations of once-independent canals, the ' Leicester Line ' of the Grand Union Canal runs north from Norton Junction for about 35 miles ( 56 km ) until it reaches Leicester, where it joins the River Soar to provide a link to the River Trent and to the Trent and Mersey Canal.

The Leicester Line continues along the River Soar Navigation, and reaches the River Trent at Soar Mouth, north of Ratcliffe-on-Soar.

About 1888 J. E. McNaughton of Barnumville and E. G. Bacon became proprietors of the `` Green Mountain Telegraph Company '', connecting all offices on the Western Union line and extending over the mountain from Barnumville to Peru, Londonderry, South Londonderry, Lowell Lake, Windham, North Windham, Grafton, Cambridgeport, Saxton's River, and Bellows Falls.

His chief discovery was important -- the Great North ( later, the Hudson ) River -- but it produced no northwest passage.

In fact, Hudson's sail up the Great North River had disposed of one of the last hopes.

Thomas Douglas, fifth Earl of Selkirk, a noble humanitarian Scot concerned with the plight of the crofters of his native Highlands, conceived a plan to settle them in the valley of the Red River of the North.

The commission, meeting for the first time with both of its newly-appointed commissioners, Roy Webster, of Hood River, and Dr. Ennis Keizer, of North Bend, approved a year's contract for a consultant in the data processing department who has been the center of considerable controversy in the past.

* Aa River ( Meuse ), a river in North Brabant, Netherlands

* 1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.

* 1807 – Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York, New York for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.

Agriculture on a large scale is practiced further north in Alberta that anywhere else in North America, extending into the Peace River country above the 55th parallel north.

The North American fur trade relied on birch-bark canoes, York boats, and Red River carts on buffalo trails to move furs out of, and European trade goods in to, the region.

* 1997 – The Red River Flood of 1997 overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Bonn is a city on the banks of the Rhine River in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

The coldest temperature in British Columbia was recorded in Smith River, where it dropped to, one of the coldest readings recorded anywhere in North America.

The most prevalent of the American stories comes from Tar River in Edgecombe County, North Carolina.

The second noteworthy characteristic is that the country borders on very different parts of the African continent: North Africa, with its Islamic culture and economic orientation toward the Mediterranean Basin ; West Africa, with its diverse religions and cultures and its history of highly developed states and regional economies ; Northeast Africa, oriented toward the Nile Valley and Red Sea region ; and Central or Equatorial Africa, some of whose people have retained classical African religions while others have adopted Christianity, and whose economies were part of the great Congo River system.

The Chicago River is the south border ( right ) of the Near North Side, Chicago | Near North Side and Streeterville and the north border ( left ) of Chicago Loop, Lakeshore East and Illinois Center ( from Lake Shore Drive's Link Bridge with Trump International Hotel and Tower ( Chicago ) | Trump International Hotel and Tower at jog in the river in the center )

The Merchandise Mart, once first on the list of largest buildings in the world, and still listed as 20th, has its own ZIP code, and stands near the junction of the North and South branches of the Chicago River.

The River North neighborhood features the nation's largest concentration of contemporary art galleries outside of New York City.

France's priorities were in settling and strengthening its claim on New France and the exploration and settlement of interior North America and the Mississippi River valley.

Important manufacturing centres in the region include Pictou County, Truro, the Annapolis Valley and the South Shore, and the Strait of Canso area in Nova Scotia, as well as Summerside in Prince Edward Island, and the Miramichi area, the North Shore and the upper Saint John River valley of New Brunswick.

During Thompson's 1811 voyage down the Columbia River he camped at the junction with the Snake River on July 9, 1811, and erected a pole and a notice claiming the country for Great Britain and stating the intention of the North West Company to build a trading post at the site.

The North West Company's Fort Nez Percés was established near the Snake River junction several years later.