The River Waver is a river in
Cumbria
Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial county in North West England. It borders the Scottish council areas of Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders to the north, Northumberland and County Durham to the east, North Yorkshire to the south-east, Lancash ...
, England. The river rises at Wavergillhead (as Townthwaite Beck).
It is fed by the northwards flowing Thornthwaite Beck and Pow Gill either side of Bolton Wood Lane.
The "Little Waver", rising at Catlands Hill, joins at Waterside near Woodrow.
The river then takes a northward course via
Waverton and
Waverbridge, both of which are named for the river, before turning sharply westward at
Abbeytown
Abbeytown is the main village in the civil parish of Holme Abbey in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. The parish was historically called Holme Cultram. The modern names of Abbeytown and Holme Abbey both reference Holmcultram Abbey, w ...
. The river then goes north, running into
Moricambe Bay, an
inlet
An inlet is a typically long and narrow indentation of a shoreline such as a small arm, cove, bay, sound, fjord, lagoon or marsh, that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake, estuary, gulf or marginal sea.
Overview
In ...
of the
Solway Firth
The Solway Firth is an inlet on the west coast of Great Britain, forming part of the border between England and Scotland. The firth (a Scottish term for an inlet of the sea) divides Cumbria (including the Solway Plain) from Dumfries and Gallow ...
.
References
Waver, River
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