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    The River Solent is a now-extinct river which during the Paleocene would have flowed around the area which is now the coastlines of Hampshire and the...
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    The Solent (/ˈsoʊlənt/ SOH-lənt) is a strait between the Isle of Wight and mainland Great Britain; the major historic ports of Southampton and Portsmouth...
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    flowing northwards through the county town Newport, towards the Solent at Cowes. The river is a navigable tidal estuary from Newport northwards, where it...
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  • the British Royal Navy PS Solent, three passenger vessels of the London and South Western Railway River Solent, an extinct river in the area of the coastlines...
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    the Solent and the Isle of Wight in England. The city of Southampton lies at its most northerly point, where the estuaries of the River Test and River Itchen...
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    Southampton Solent University (formerly and commonly known as Solent University) is a public university based in Southampton, United Kingdom. It has approximately...
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    -1.600 The Solent Way is a long-distance footpath in Hampshire, southern England. For the most part, the path follows the coast of the Solent, the sea strait...
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    to empty into the Solent at Hill Head near Stubbington. Above Wickham, the river runs through the South Downs National Park. The River Meon rises one mile...
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    access to the sheltered waters of Southampton Water and The Solent. From source to mouth the river makes a repeated curve heading south-southwest. It gains...
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  • Wolf Solent is a novel by John Cowper Powys (1872–1963) that was written while he was based in Patchin Place, New York City, and travelling around the...
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    Scientific Interest. It is part of the Solent and Southampton Water Ramsar site and Special Protection Area. The river is used for fly fishing for trout from...
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    river at Bucklers Hard A yacht entering the river from the Solent Millennium Lighthouse at the mouth of the river Lewis, S. (1848) A Topographical Dictionary...
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    forms the Solent. This gives it a fairly constant and gentle gradient where several fluvial terraces have been identified. The Somme river was known in...
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    Woolston, but also at other locations in the Solent area. There is a museum devoted to them at Lee-on-Solent to the East. The Hythe Village marina is situated...
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    Bratley Water and Fletchers Water. From Brockenhurst the river runs southwards to the Solent at Lymington. Highland Water rises north of the Ocknell Inclosure...
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    Lutetian stage of the Eocene epoch) the climate was tropical and an ancient River Solent washed kaolinite (formed from decomposed granite) from its parent rock...
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    HMS Solent was a S-class submarine built by Cammell Laird and launched on 8 June 1944 of the third batch built for the Royal Navy during World War II....
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    Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Roman periods. The River Solent was the largest tributary of the Channel River that drained the Hampshire Basin from the Early...
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    river Merlin Boatyard, opposite Itchen Marine, on the eastern shore Lauren Marine Services, a small marina on the eastern side Ocean Quay and Solent Breeze...
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    the Solent was part of the valley of the now extinct Solent River. The river flowed eastward from Dorset, following the course of the modern Solent strait...
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    its shores. There is also a small harbour, located where the River Meon enters the Solent. It is next to Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve. Hill...
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    Hampshire (section Rivers)
    north, Surrey and West Sussex to the east, the Isle of Wight across the Solent to the south, Dorset to the west, and Wiltshire to the north-west. The city...
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  • Solent Arena (/ˈsoʊlənt/ SOH-lənt) was an indoor arena, in Fareham, Hampshire. It was located alongside River Wallington by the M27 motorway. The Solent...
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    Environment Agency. "The River Test". Archived from the original on 11 March 2007. Retrieved 28 July 2007. The Solent Forum. "Western Solent and Southampton Water...
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    Island. Langstone Harbour was originally a river valley of one of the tributaries flowing into the then River Solent. With the end of the last ice age sea...
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    around the Solent and Isle of Wight in vessels up to 500 passengers. The Blue Funnel Cruises operating out of Southampton Port and the Solent Cruises operating...
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    by Capital Pleasure Boats and operating on the River Thames. Former names are Gay Enterprise and Solent Enterprise. The vessel was built in 1971 for the...
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    Browndown, where the River Alver flows into The Solent at Stokes Bay. Further west from Browndown point is the district of Lee-on-the-Solent with the former...
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  • Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire Lee-over-Sands, Essex Lee District (Metropolis) The Lee, Buckinghamshire, parish and village name, formally known as Lee River Lee...
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    continued eastwards through what is now Poole Harbour and Poole Bay along the Solent, collecting the Stour–Avon, Beaulieu, and Test–Itchen–Hamble catchments...
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