RIVER /FEATURE

RIVER SOW

RIVER SEVERN

SOURCE

Broughton

Plynlimon, Wales

HEIGHT ABOVE SEA

617ft

2000ft

MOUTH

River Trent at Great Haywood

Bristol Channel

HEIGHT ABOVE SEA

238ft

0ft

LENGTH

15 miles

220 miles

TRIBUTARIES

Brockton Brook, Meece Brook, Doxey Brook, The Darling, River Penk.

Teme, Avon, Stour

MAIN TOWNS

Eccleshall, Stafford

Newtown ,Welshpool, Shrewsbury, Worcester, Gloucester

USES (PAST)

Fishing, Water mills

Fishing, transport iron and coal

USES (NOW)

Fishing, Boating, leisure

Fishing, leisure, transport

FEATURES

Meanders, merepool

Meanders, waterfalls, estuary, Seven Bore – 2nd largest tidal range in the world. When there is a spring tide a big wave goes up the river.

PROBLEMS

Flooding

Flooding, Pollution – in 1985 a farmer let some pig slurry into the river and 10,000 fish died