2007-02-03 20:34:15 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ United Kingdom ➔ Other - United Kingdom
It rises in the north of Staffordshire between Biddulph & Mow Cop.
you'll find full details on the site below.
2007-02-03 20:41:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Third longest river of England; length 275 km / 170 miles. Rising in the south Pennines (at Norton in the Moors) by the Staffordshire-Cheshire border, it flows south and then northeast through Derbyshire, along the county boundary of Leicestershire, and through Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, joining the Ouse east of Goole to form the Humber estuary, and entering the North Sea below Spurn Head. Its drainage basin covers more than 10,000 sq km / 4,000 sq miles. Main tributaries are the Churnet, Dove, and Derwent. It is navigable by barge for nearly 160 km / 100 miles.
The principal towns and cities along its course are Burton upon Trent, Stoke-on-Trent, Nottingham, and Newark. It is connected with other rivers and with the Birmingham and Lancashire districts by the Trent and Mersey Canal and the Grand Union Canal. The Trent valley includes extensive gravel workings and many electric power stations.
2007-02-04 01:16:51 · answer #2 · answered by sarch_uk 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I bought a narrow boat to find out this and a few other questions I had. I spent two wonderful years floating along canals and rivers finding how beautiful England still is and enjoying being fully in charge of my life for a change. Didn't find the source of the Trent but followed the Trent-Mersey canal from end to end, then the Leeds - Liverpool, the Aire & Calder, back to the Trent and ended up tied to the same set of bollards I had left two months earlier... beats work any day.
2007-02-03 20:56:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The river Trent comes from the tidal river Humber and strarts at Ousefleet east of Goole.
2007-02-03 21:07:57 · answer #4 · answered by Lawnraker 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the river trent starts in biddulph moor near to biddulph town in stoke on trent where it runs through knypersley resevoir and over the waterfall through the mill pool below and meanders through the valley of norton green eventually passing burton on trent through nottingam and ending up in the humber estruary
2007-02-03 20:51:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My little map says Rier Humber Near Scunthorpe and runs to the Leicester section of the Grand Union canal!
Of course I could be wrong and maybe have my map upside down?
2007-02-03 20:51:51 · answer #6 · answered by budding author 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋