River Wylye
River Wylye | |
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Codford St Peter, Wilton | |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | Rodmead Farm |
• location | Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire, England |
• coordinates | 51°07′25″N 2°18′11″W / 51.12361°N 2.30306°W |
• elevation | 148 m (486 ft) |
Mouth | Confluence with River Nadder |
• location | Wilton, Wiltshire, England |
• coordinates | 51°04′45″N 1°51′45″W / 51.07917°N 1.86250°W |
• elevation | 69 m (226 ft) |
Length | 45 km (28 mi) |
Basin size | 470 km2 (180 sq mi) |
Discharge | |
• location | Chitterne Brook |
• average | 0.3 m3/s (11 cu ft/s) |
• minimum | 0.1 m3/s (3.5 cu ft/s) |
• maximum | 0.6 m3/s (21 cu ft/s) |
Basin features | |
Progression | Avon, English Channel |
Tributaries | |
• left | Chitterne Brook, River Till |
The River Wylye (/ˈwaɪli/ WY-lee) is a chalk stream in the south of England, with clear water flowing over gravel. It is popular with anglers for fly fishing.[1] A half-mile stretch of the river and three lakes in Warminster are a local nature reserve.[2][3]
Course
The Wylye rises below the
The Wylye forms part of the River Avon drainage basin and is fed by several winterbournes, which commonly dry up completely in the summer, so that the water flow in the river can vary greatly according to the time of year.[5]
Features
Two
Name
Wilton, and hence Wiltshire (which was originally Wiltonshire), are named after the river. There is also a village of
In literature
The River Wylye is one of the five rivers mentioned in Edward Rutherfurd’s novel Sarum.
Water quality
The Environment Agency measures the water quality of the river systems in England. Each is given an overall ecological status, which may be one of five levels: high, good, moderate, poor and bad. There are several components that are used to determine this, including biological status, which looks at the quantity and varieties of
Water quality of the Wylye in 2019:
Section | Ecological Status |
Chemical Status |
Overall Status |
Length | Catchment | Channel |
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Wylye (Headwaters)[9] | Poor | Fail | Poor | 19.035 km (11.828 mi) | 87.746 km2 (33.879 sq mi) | |
Wylye (Middle)[10] | Moderate | Fail | Moderate | 40.013 km (24.863 mi) | 122.421 km2 (47.267 sq mi) | |
Wylye (Lower)[11] | Good | Fail | Moderate | 15.775 km (9.802 mi) | 21.74 km2 (8.39 sq mi) |
Villages
Villages on or near the Wylye include (
- Maiden Bradley
- Kingston Deverill
- Monkton Deverill
- Brixton Deverill
- Longbridge Deverill
- Crockerton
- Norton Bavant
- Heytesbury
- Sutton Veny[12]
- Upton Lovell
- Boyton
- Sherrington
- Codford
- Stockton
- Bapton
- Fisherton Delamere
- Wylye
- Hanging Langford
- Steeple Langford
- Great Wishford
- Stoford
- South Newton
- Wilton
References
- ^ "Fishing Breaks". Retrieved 20 November 2007.
- ^ "River Wylye". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England.
- ^ "Map of River Wylye". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England.
- ^ "Wylye (Headwaters)". Environment Agency - Catchment Data Explorer. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
- ^ "IUCN" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 December 2007. Retrieved 20 November 2007.
- ^ "English Nature". Retrieved 20 November 2007.
- ^ "Fine wine...from Wiltshire vineyards". Wiltshire Times. 19 May 2008. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
- ^ "Glossary (see Biological quality element; Chemical status; and Ecological status)". Catchment Data Explorer. Environment Agency. 17 February 2016. Text was copied from this source, which is available under an Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright.
- ^ "Wylye (Headwaters)". Catchment Data Explorer. Environment Agency.
- ^ "Wylye (Middle)". Catchment Data Explorer. Environment Agency.
- ^ "Wylye (Lower)". Catchment Data Explorer. Environment Agency.
- ^ "The Village of Sutton Veny, Wylye Valley". Retrieved 13 June 2008.