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| Geography |
| Towns and Cities |
| Riparian Cities: United Kingdom |
| Mouths |
| Other |
| Other way round |
OK, I'll admit it here as well: I nicked the title of this page (and its "Overseas" counterpart) from John Smith: How to Win Any Pub Quiz (Guinness Publishing, 1993, and revised edition 1995). This was the first place I registered the word 'riparian'. I've since come across it in Three Men in a Boat, on re–reading it about 50 years after reading it at school. It means 'on or pertaining to a riverbank'. I just can't think of a better way to describe what these pages do.
Note that some of these places are towns and not cities.
| Q: Which river enters the sea at … ? | A: | |
| Padstow |
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Camel |
| Amble (Northumberland) |
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Coquet |
| Whitby |
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Esk |
| King’s Lynn |
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Great Ouse |
| Grimsby |
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Humber |
| Cowes |
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Medina |
| Inverness: where the River Ness runs into the |
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Moray Firth |
| Aberystwyth |
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Rheidol |
| Cardiff |
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Taff |
| Swansea |
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Tawe |
| Dundee: on the estuary (firth) of the |
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Tay |
| Southampton |
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Test, Itchen |
| Newport, Monmouthshire: near the mouth of the |
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Usk |
| Fleetwood |
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Wyre |
| Aberdeen sits between the mouths of (two rivers) |
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Dee |
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Don |
| Q: Which river flows through (the town or city of) ... ? | A: | |
| Leeds |
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Aire |
| Bath, Bristol |
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Avon |
| Wakefield |
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Calder |
| Cambridge |
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Cam |
| Leek: bordered to the north and east by the |
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Churnet |
| Gourock, Greenock: on the Firth (estuary) of |
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Clyde |
| Colchester |
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Colne |
| Chester |
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Dee |
| Matlock, Derby |
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Derwent |
| Sheffield, Rotherham (the Rother flows into it at the latter) |
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Don |
| Wigan |
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Douglas |
| Carlisle |
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Eden |
| Stirling |
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Forth |
| Londonderry |
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Foyle |
Buckingham, Milton Keynes (Stony Stratford), Newport Pagnell, Bedford, St. Neots, Huntingdon, St. Ives,
Ely (old course), Kings Lynn |
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Great Ouse |
| Keswick |
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Greta |
| Winchester |
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Itchen |
| Marlborough (Wiltshire), Hungerford, Newbury (both in Berkshire); joins the Thames at Reading |
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Kennet |
| Kendal |
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Kent |
| Belfast |
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Lagan |
| Lancaster |
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Lune |
| Rochester (Kent) |
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Medway |
| Northampton, Peterborough, Wisbech |
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Nene |
| Knaresborough (also flows near to Harrogate, but not through it) |
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Nidd |
| Dumfries |
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Nith |
| Ipswich |
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Orwell |
| Preston |
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Ribble |
| Rochdale |
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Roch |
| Gloucester, Worcester, Shrewsbury, Tewkesbury
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Severn |
| Leicester |
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Soar |
| Stafford |
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Sow |
| Canterbury |
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(Great) Stour
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| Kidderminster |
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Stour (Worcestershire) |
| Richmond, North Yorkshire |
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Swale |
| Ashton–under–Lyne |
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Tame |
| Barnstaple |
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Taw |
| Perth |
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Tay |
| Middlesbrough |
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Tees |
| Oxford, Reading |
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Thames |
| Bideford |
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Torridge |
| Llandovery, Llandeilo, Carmarthen |
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Towy (Tywi) |
| St. Albans |
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Ver |
| Ashington, Morpeth (Northumberland) |
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Wansbeck |
| Durham, Sunderland |
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Wear |
| Stamford (Lincolnshire) |
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Welland |
| Norwich |
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Wensum |
| Ilkley, Otley, Wetherby, Tadcaster |
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Wharfe |
| Bourton–on–the Water (Glos), Burford, Witney (Oxon) |
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Windrush |
| Lincoln |
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Witham |
| Hereford, Monmouth, Chepstow |
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Wye |
| Buxton, Bakewell (different river – a tributary of the Derwent) |
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Wye |
| The river Cherwell (pronounced "Charwell" locally) flows into the Thames at |
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Oxford |
| The Foss joins the (Yorkshire) Ouse at |
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York |
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