River Piddle

Piddle River Trent
The River Piddle at Wareham
Data
location	Dorset , England
River system	River Piddle
River basin district	South west
source	at Alton Pancras 50 ° 49 ′ 11 ″  N , 2 ° 26 ′ 0 ″  W.
muzzle	in Poole Harbor coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 0 ″  N , 2 ° 4 ′ 0 ″  W 50 ° 41 ′ 0 ″  N , 2 ° 4 ′ 0 ″  W
Small towns	Wareham

The River Piddle (also Trent ) is a river in Dorset , England . The river arises at Alton Pancras , whose Anglo-Saxon name Awultune means 'place at the source of the river' (River Piddle). The Piddle flows in a south or south-easterly direction and essentially follows the River Frome , a little further south , into whose confluence it flows east of Wareham in the Wareham Channel of Poole Harbor . The River Piddle is one of the rivers whose washout contributed to the formation of Poole Harbor.

The River Piddle touches a number of small communities. The names of the places Puddletown , Tolpuddle , Piddlehinton , Piddletrenthide , Affpuddle , Briantspuddle , Turnerspuddle are all associated with the river, the name of which has been partially changed to 'puddle'.