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The River Trent is a large stream, full of shallows, and rapids, and beautiful lakes, taking its rise north of the township of Somerville, in the Colborne District, not very far from a chain of lakes, which reach the Ottawa on the east, and the Black River, a feeder of Lake
Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 Richard Henry Bonnycastle 1819
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However, Bawtry is not far from the River Trent, which is easily navigable at that point a few centuries later the Vikings could sail still further upstream, and a journey by ship down the Trent to the Humber and then round the coasts of Lincolnshire and East Anglia to Sutton Hoo would have taken the Sutton Hoo ship only a couple of days with a fair wind.
Archive 2008-07-01 Carla 2008
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However, Bawtry is not far from the River Trent, which is easily navigable at that point a few centuries later the Vikings could sail still further upstream, and a journey by ship down the Trent to the Humber and then round the coasts of Lincolnshire and East Anglia to Sutton Hoo would have taken the Sutton Hoo ship only a couple of days with a fair wind.
Sutton Hoo Mound 17: The horse and his boy Carla 2008
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The Labour party knows this, which explains its proposed threshold hike when it was interested in winning marginal seats south of the River Trent.
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The Labour party knows this, which explains its proposed threshold hike when it was interested in winning marginal seats south of the River Trent.
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Prior to this, to mark his visit, His Holiness was also invited to plant a tree in the Country Hall premises overlooking the River Trent.
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Prior to this, to mark his visit, His Holiness was also invited to plant a tree in the Country Hall premises overlooking the River Trent.
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A canal called the Fosdyke ran west from Brayfield Pool — all the way to the River Trent, Philip had been told.
The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989
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We had to cross the bridge over the River Trent, and my brother had already crossed when he found I was not following.
From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor
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We had no difficulty in getting an early breakfast, and a good one too, before leaving the inn this morning, but we found we had missed seeing one or two interesting places which we passed the previous night in the dark, and we had also crossed the River Trent as it flowed towards the great brewery town of
From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor
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