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    River Welland is a lowland river in the east of England, some 65 miles (105 km) long. It drains part of the Midlands eastwards to The Wash. The river...
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    The Welland River (originally called the Chippawa Creek) is a river in the Golden Horseshoe that passes through the Southern Ontario cities of Welland and...
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    of Welland Canal and Welland River, which played a great role in the city's development. The city has developed on both sides of the Welland River and...
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  • States Welland, Worcestershire, a village in England Welland Estate, Cambridgeshire, England River Welland in the east of England Welland River in Ontario...
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    erected because the Niagara River—the only natural waterway connecting the lakes—was unnavigable due to Niagara Falls. The Welland Canal enables ships to ascend...
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    of North Northamptonshire. As its name suggests, it is near to the River Welland that, thereabouts, forms the boundary with the county of Leicestershire...
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    The River Gwash, occasionally Guash, a tributary of the River Welland, flows through the English counties of Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincolnshire...
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    Spalding (/ˈspɔːldɪŋ/) is a market town on the River Welland in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. The main town had a population of...
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    The Wash (redirect from Wash River)
    being the largest natural bay in England and is the outflow for the rivers Witham, Welland, Nene and the Great Ouse. It is also one of the most important places...
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    divergence of the River Welland and a distributary, the rivers have been re-routed, and it now spans nothing significant. At Crowland the Welland used to split...
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    county was named from the Welland River. The river got its name from John Graves Simcoe who named it after the River Welland which forms a border of Lincolnshire...
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    Cornish and Breton, the neighbouring rivers, the Glen and the Welland seem to have been given contrasting names. The Welland flowed from the area underlain...
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    23 Welland was Britain's first production jet engine. It entered production in 1943 for the Gloster Meteor. The name Welland is taken from the River Welland...
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    forded the River Welland to the west of Stamford, eventually reaching Lincoln. They also built a town to the north at Great Casterton on the River Gwash....
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    Eye Brook (redirect from River Eye, Rutland)
    watercourse in the East Midlands of England and a tributary of the River Welland. It is around 18 miles (29 km) long. The Eye Brook rises between Tilton...
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  • a tributary of the River Welland in Lincolnshire River Bourne, a tributary of the Thames in Surrey that has two branches: River Bourne, Chertsey, which...
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    Welland Viaduct, Harringworth Viaduct or Seaton Viaduct, crosses the valley of the River Welland between Harringworth in Northamptonshire and Seaton in...
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    Rutland's county town, Oakham. It is filled by pumping from the River Nene and River Welland, and provides water to the East Midlands. By surface area it...
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    word "cruw" is thought to mean a bend, and to refer to the bend in the River Welland at Crowland, which was more pronounced before the draining of the fens...
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    civil parish at the 2011 census was 686. It is in the valley of the River Welland, between Stamford and The Deepings. The village lies 1 mile (1.6 km)...
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    Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, on the north bank of the River Welland and the A15 road. The population of the town at the 2011 census was...
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    English 'ofer' and 'ora', which both mean ridge. The parish is on the River Welland which is the county boundary with Northamptonshire. Most of the houses...
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    through the Soke of Peterborough rises from the River Nene to a ridge at Eye before falling to the River Welland. This it does in steady gradients, quite unlike...
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    for Dolben seems to have cooled by that time. Dolben drowned in the River Welland when bathing with the ten-year-old son of his tutor, Rev. C. E. Prichard...
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    The Welland Canals used the Welland River to connect to the Niagara River south of the falls, enabling water traffic to safely re-enter the river and...
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    River St. Marys River and canal of Ontario Detroit River St. Clair River Welland Canal Lake St. Clair Lake Superior Saskatchewan River Hudson Strait and...
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    the fens in Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire between the Nene and the River Welland. It originally included only a small part of these lands, including...
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    Northamptonshire. It is in Rockingham Forest and overlooks the valley of the River Welland and the neighbouring county of Rutland. At the time of the 2001 census...
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    hatchment in the parish church of Henry Barwell who died in 1763. The River Welland was in flood at the time of the Battle of Naseby in 1645 which led to...
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    canals, past the Great Central Railway's Catesby Tunnel and viaduct, the River Welland, the 82-arch viaduct at Harringworth, and Rockingham Castle. It connects...
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