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River Bride, Dorset

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- elevation
  
300 ft (91 m)

Country
  
United Kingdom

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- location
  
Burton Bradstock, West Dorset, Dorset, England

The River Bride is a river in Dorset, England, situated in the West Dorset administrative district between the towns of Dorchester and Bridport. It is approximately 6.5 miles (10.5 km) long and has a catchment area of 15 square miles (39 km2). It rises at an altitude of 90 metres (300 ft) beneath an artificial lake at Bridehead House, Littlebredy, then flows west to its mouth on the English Channel near Burton Bradstock. Its name derives from the Celtic for boiling or gushing. It has nine tributaries and descends more than 60 metres (200 ft) in its first three miles. It reaches the coast just west of Burton Bradstock through a break in coastal cliffs at Burton Freshwater; here it meets the western end of Chesil Beach where it "forms itself into a pool and fights to get to the sea intact before sinking into the shingle."

Map of River Bride, United Kingdom

References

River Bride, Dorset Wikipedia


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