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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 971 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STOUR , the name of several See also:

English See also:rivers. (1) The See also:East-Anglian Stour rises in the slight See also:chalk hills in the See also:south-east of See also:Cambridgeshire and follows a course ranging from east to south-east to the See also:North See also:Sea at See also:Harwich, passing See also:Clare, See also:Sudbury, See also:Nay-See also:land and Manningtree. It falls about 380 ft. in a course of 6o m., and drains an See also:area of 407 sq. m. Over nearly its entire course it forms the boundary between See also:Suffolk and See also:Essex. From See also:Manning-See also:tree downward its course is estuarine, and it is joined immediately above Harwich by the See also:estuary of the Orwell. It is navigable up to Sudbury but does not See also:bear much See also:traffic. (2) The Kentish Stour or See also:Great Stour rises on the See also:southern See also:face of the North See also:Downs, the See also:branch called the East Stour having its source not far inland from See also:Hythe, but flowing at first away from the sea, while the See also:main or western branch rises near Lenham. They unite at See also:Ashford. Passing See also:Canterbury, the Stour divides into two branches, the larger reaching the English Channel in Pegwell See also:Bay, while the smaller runs north to the North Sea at Reculver. The larger branch is joined in the levels by the Little Stour from the south. The Stour is navigable to Fordwich near Canterbury, but is little used above See also:Sandwich. Its length is about 40 m., its fall from Ashford 150 ft., and its drainage area 370 sq. m.

The name of Stour belongs also to (3) a considerable but unnavigable tributary of the See also:

Hampshire See also:Avon, rising in See also:Wiltshire, and touching See also:Somersetshire and See also:Dorsetshire before it joins the main See also:river in Hampshire See also:close to its mouth; (4) a See also:left See also:bank tributary of the See also:Severn, which it joins at See also:Stourport, its course being followed by the See also:Worcestershire and See also:Staffordshire See also:canal; and (5) a small tributary of the upper Avon, rising in the north of See also:Oxfordshire in the hills See also:west of See also:Banbury, and joining the main river a little below See also:Stratford-on-Avon.

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