River Great Ouse

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River Great Ouse
The Great Ouse at Over in Cambridgeshire

The Great Ouse at Over in Cambridgeshire

Data
location East england
River system Great Ouse
Drain over The Wash  → North Sea
River basin district Anglian
source Wappenham, South Northamptonshire
52 ° 5 ′ 33 ″  N , 1 ° 5 ′ 35 ″  W.
Source height 150  m
muzzle The Wash ( North Sea ) coordinates: 52 ° 47 ′ 47 "  N , 0 ° 21 ′ 53"  E 52 ° 47 ′ 47 "  N , 0 ° 21 ′ 53"  E
Mouth height m
Height difference 150 m
Bottom slope 0.56 ‰
length 270 km
Catchment area 8530 km²
Discharge at the Denver Complex
A Eo gauge : 3570 km²
MQ 1970-1993
Mq 1970-1993
15.35 m³ / s
4.3 l / (s km²)
Outflow
A Eo : 8530 km²
MQ 1970-1993
Mq 1970-1993
35 m³ / s
4.1 l / (s km²)
Left tributaries Old Croft , New Bedford River , Old Bedford River
Right tributaries Cam , Lark , Little Ouse , Wissey
Medium-sized cities Bedford , King's Lynn
Small towns Huntingdon , Ely , Downham Market

The River Great Ouse (pronounced [ɡɹeɪt ˈuːz] ) is a 270 km long river in eastern England .

course

The Great Ouse flows through Buckingham , Milton Keynes , Olney , Bedford , St Neots , Godmanchester , Huntingdon , St. Ives , Ely , Littleport , Downham Market and then flows into The Wash estuary near King's Lynn . It is East Anglia's main shipping route . The lower course of the river is also known as the Old West River and The Ely Ouse .

Tributaries

  • New Bedford River
  • Old Bedford River
  • Cam
  • Ivel
  • Lark
  • Little Ouse
  • Nar
  • Wissey

Web links

Commons : River Great Ouse  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. a b Environment Agency: Great Ouse Catchment Flood Management Plan - Draft Plan ( Memento of the original dated December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 2010 (accessed on November 23, 2013, pdf, English; 8.2 MB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cdn.environment-agency.gov.uk
  2. Note: The catchment area of ​​8,596 km² specified by the Environment Agency also includes the catchment areas of the River Ingol and Heacham River, which do not flow into the Great Ouse, but rather directly into the North Sea . Their catchment areas totaling 66 km² have been factored out.
  3. NR Nawaz, AJ Adeloye: Evaluation of monthly runoff estimated by a rainfall runoff-regression model for reservoir assessment yield , Hydrological Sciences, 44 (1), pp 113-134, 1999 (page 120)
  4. Extrapolation of the Denver Complex level value for the entire catchment area, rounded off with regard to the precipitation distribution in the entire catchment area