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Cleethorpes

(Encyclopedia)Cleethorpes klēˈthôrps [key], town, North East Lincolnshire, E central England, on the Humber ...

Irvine, town, Scotland

(Encyclopedia)Irvine ûrˈvĭn [key], town, North Ayrshire, SW Scotland, on the Irvine River estuary. Indus...

Inhul

(Encyclopedia)Inhul ēnho͞olˈ [key], Rus. Ingul, river, in Ukraine. Rising N of Kirovohrad, it flows south c.210 mi (340 km) to empty into the Buh estuary, an inlet of the Black Sea, at Mykolayiv. ...

Lytham Saint Anne's

(Encyclopedia)Lytham Saint Anne's lĭᵺˈəm [key], town (1991 pop. 39,707), Lancashire, NW England, on the north shore of the Ribble estuary. It is a seaside resort. Lytham Saint Anne's was founded in the 12th ce...

Tagus

(Encyclopedia)Tagus tāˈgəs [key], Span. Tajo, Port. Tejo, river, c.585 mi (940 km) long, rising in the mountains E of Madrid, E Spain, and draining the central part of the Iberian Peninsula. The Tagus flows nort...

Walcheren

(Encyclopedia)Walcheren välˈkhərən [key], region, Zeeland prov., SW Netherlands, on the North Sea at the entrance to the Scheldt estuary. Middelburg is the chief city and is also the capital of Zeeland prov. Vl...

Dean, Forest of

(Encyclopedia)Dean, Forest of, ancient royal forest (c.30,000 acres/12,141 hectares), Gloucestershire, W England, between the Severn estuary and the gorges of the Wye River. It was the first (1938) of the National ...

Ellesmere Port

(Encyclopedia)Ellesmere Port, town, Cheshire West and Chester, W central England. Ellesmere Port is located on the Manchester Ship Canal near its junction with the Sh...

Exe

(Encyclopedia)Exe ĕks [key], river, c.55 mi (90 km) long, rising in the Exmoor, Somerset, SW England, and flowing S across the Cornwall peninsula, past Exeter to the English Channel at Exmouth. Salmon and shellfis...

Manchester Ship Canal

(Encyclopedia)Manchester Ship Canal, 35.5 mi (57 km) long with a minimum depth of 28 ft (8.5 m), connecting Manchester, W England, with the Mersey estuary at Eastham, above Birkenhead. Begun in 1887, it was opened ...