River Corve
River Corve | |
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Location | |
Country | England |
Counties | Shropshire |
City | Ludlow |
Physical characteristics | |
Mouth | Confluence with River Teme |
• location | Ludlow, Shropshire, England |
• elevation | 75 m (246 ft) |
Basin features | |
Tributaries | |
• left | Trow Brook, Pye Brook, Hope Gutter, Fishmore Brook |
• right | Seifton Brook, Langley Gutter |
The River Corve is a minor river in Shropshire, England. It is a tributary of the River Teme which it joins in the town of Ludlow, and which joins the River Severn at Powick near Worcester. The valley it flows through is known as the Corvedale (or Corve Dale), a term used as a general name for the area, and a name used for example by the primary school in Diddlebury. It is sometimes (archaically) spelled "Corf", which is its pronunciation.
Course
It flows near Corfton (which it gives its name to), then by Culmington, then through Stanton Lacy and then through the northwest outskirts of Ludlow before joining the Teme in an area of meadows just outside the town. It also gave its name to Corfham Castle, near Peaton. Corfham was the caput (the centre of medieval administration) for two Saxon hundreds that encompassed the Corve Dale — Patton and Culvestan. They were merged into a single hundred (Munslow) in the reign of Henry I, however Culvestan continued to be a name used to describe the lower Corve valley for at least a century afterwards.[1]
Pollution and floods
In 2006 as a result of pollution by slurry from a livestock farm in Brockton near Stanton Long, fish were found dead in the river.[2]
During heavy flooding in 2007 when the river rose 1.6 metres (5 ft 3 in) in three hours, a house collapsed into the river and the
Electoral wards
'Corvedale' is an
'Corve' is a
See also
References
- ^ British history online
- ^ anglers.net news Retrieved 10 July 2010
- ^ BBC News. Retrieved 10 July 2010
- ^ Road traffic technology Retrieved 10 July 2010
- ^ "Ward population 2011.Accessdate=25 November 2011".
External links
Media related to River Corve at Wikimedia Commons