Stour Sentence Examples

With a more direct course, and in a widening, fertile valley it continues past Downton, Fordingbridge and Ringwood, skirting the New Forest on the west, to Christchurch, where it receives the Stour from the west, and 2 z m.

Its general direction thereafter remains south-westerly, and it flows past Stratfordon-Avon, receives the Stour on the south and the Arrow on the north and thence past Evesham and Pershore to Tewkesbury.

Besides Mainland, the principal member of the group, the more important are Yell, Unst and Fetlar in the north, Whalsay and Bressay in the east, Trondra, East and West Burra, Papa Stour, Muckle Roe and Foula in the west, and Fair Isle in the south.

In the western portion of Mainland, in Northmavine, -there is a considerable tract of rocks of this age which are formed largely of intrusive diabase-porphyrite; similar volcanic rocks occur in Papa Stour.

These are penetrated by intrusions of granitic and felsitic character; one of these masses in Papa Stour is a handsome pink felsite.

Papa Stour (272), properly spelt Stoor, "the big [Norse stor] island of the priests," lies in the south-west of the great bay of St Magnus.

The scenery of the neighbouring Orwell and Stour estuaries is pleasant.

It is pleasantly situated on a gentle eminence near the confluence of the upper branches of the river Stour.

The branches of the Stour dividing near Sarre take the place of the former Wantsume, a sea-passage which had diminished in breadth to half a mile in the time of Augustine.

It lies pleasantly in a well-wooded country on the small river Brett, a tributary of the Stour.

The boundaries of Essex were in later times the rivers Stour and Thames, but the original limits of the kingdom are quite uncertain; towards the west it probably included most if not the whole of Hertfordshire, and in the 7th century the whole of Middlesex.

The easternmost penetration of the Downs is that effected by the Stour (Great Stour) which rises on their southern face, flows S.E.

From Pegwell Bay south to a point near Deal the coast is flat, and the drained marshes or levels of the lower Stour extend to the west; but thence the coast rises again into chalk cliffs, the eastward termination of the North Downs, the famous white cliffs which form the nearest point of England to continental Europe, overlooking the Strait of Dover.

To the south of Hythe this shore borders the wide expanse of Romney Marsh, which, immediately west of Hythe, is overlooked by a line of abrupt hills, but for the rest is divided on the north from the drainage system of the Stour only by a slight uplift.

The marsh lands along the banks of the Thames, Medway, Stour and Swale consist chiefly of rich chalk alluvium.

In 1749, having been selected as a Harbour of Refuge for the Downs, it underwent great improvements, and henceforward paid £200 yearly to Sandwich out of the droits for clearing the Channel and repairing the banks of the river Stour within the Liberty; but by 1790 the harbour was of small account.

It is situated on a gentle slope above the river Allen near its confluence with the Stour.

The permanency of colour by which they are distinguished is attributed to the properties of the water of the Stour, which is impregnated with iron and fuller's earth.

In 736 lands upon the river Stour, called Stour in Usmere, which have been identified with the site of Kidderminster (Chideminstre), were given to Earl Cyneberght by King 'Ethelbald to found a monastery.

If this monastery was ever built, it was afterwards annexed to the church of Worcester, and the lands on the Stour formed part of the gift of Coenwulf, king of the Mercians, to Deneberht, bishop of Worcester, but were exchanged with the same king in 816 for other property.

The site chosen consisted of an expanse of marshland through which the Stour flowed as an insignificant stream.

The wide estuary of the sea separating it from the mainland, through which ships sailed from the English Channel into the Thames, using it as the shortest route from the south to London, has entirely disappeared, leaving only a flat lowland traversed by branches of the river Stour to mark its former existence.

It lies on the left bank of the Severn, at the junction of the Stour and the Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal.

Close to the town, on the river Stour, which rises in the vicinity, are slight ruins of a Premonstratensian abbey of Early English date.

The town stands on an eminence on the left bank of the Stour.

In the Great Stour catchment, 26 sites of waste disposal have been identified by the Environment Agency as potential groundwater contaminants.

Where is there arable farmland in the Great Stour Valley?

Fly tipping on the increase Fly tipping is becoming much more noticeable in the Stour Valley.

It then joined the river stour to exit the County north of Sudbury.

The day was a great success for all involved and has no doubt helped to put the Kentish stour on the map.

The church is located on the Croft, which is a broad sward of green running down to the river stour.

Capital Mansion House, situated in a beautiful park commanding extensive beautiful views over the picturesque vale of the Stour.

The Little Stour joins the Great Stour in these lowlands from a deep vale among the Downs.

It then joined the river Stour to exit the County north of Sudbury.

The day was a great success for all involved and has no doubt helped to put the Kentish Stour on the map.

The church is located on the Croft, which is a broad sward of green running down to the river Stour.

The rather industrial village straggles down to the muddy Stour, and on the far bank sits the fine Essex town of Manningtree.

From a trickling stream to the fury of the flood, it shows the Stour river in a myriad of moods.

I wince whenever I see those huge diesel tractors plow the Stour meadowlands.