RIVER STOUR

For other rivers or places named "Stour", see: Stour

The River Stour is a river in Kent, England. It is Kent's second longest river.

One of its sources rises at Postling near Hythe and becomes the River East Stour. Another rises at Lenham near Maidstone and becomes the River West Stour. They join at Ashford to become the River Great Stour.

The Great Stour flows through Canterbury and Plucks Gutter. The River Little Stour then joins the Great Stour to become the River Stour. The River Wantsum joins here, too, and the Stour flows through Sandwich, England and into the English Channel at Ramsgate.

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The River Stour is a river in Suffolk, England. It is 76km (47 m) long and forms most of the county boundary between Suffolk and Essex. It rises in eastern Cambridgeshire, passes though Haverhill, Cavendish, Suffolk, Sudbury and the Dedham Vale, and it joins the North Sea at Harwich.

RSPB Stour Estuary is a nature reserve managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

The Stour valley has been portrayed as a working river by John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough and Paul Nash.

The River Stour Trust, a waterway restoration group, was set up in 1968 and has restored the Gasworks Cut and the 19th century Granary Building, now used as the Trust's Headquarters.

See also: River Stour, Kent, River Stour, Warwickshire