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The River Blyth flows eastwards through southern Northumberland into the North Sea at the town of Blyth. It flows through Plessey Woods Country Park. The River Pont is a tributary. The Blyth is 27 miles (44 km) long and the Pont is 17 miles (28 km). Quick Facts Location, Country ... The tidal limit of the river is at Bebside. The estuary widens ...
Blyth, Northumberland. Blyth (/ ˈblaɪð /) is a port and seaside town as well as a civil parish in southeast Northumberland, England. It lies on the coast, to the south of the River Blyth. It has a population of 39,731 as of the 2021 census, up 6% from the 2011 census and population of 37,347.
The route now briefly joins the A12, the river bridge marking the start of the tidal Blyth estuary, a wide and serenely beautiful stretch of water and mudflats, dominated by Blythburgh’s Holy Trinity Church, rightly known as the Cathedral of the Marshes. This magnificent building, among Suffolk’s finest, thankfully escaped the national ...
1208 - First chronicle of a town in the Blyth Town area. 1236 - The town of Blyth is referred to as ‘Blithmuth’. 1250 – The town is now referred to under the slightly altered name of ‘Blithemuth’. If the name had persisted as it had in the case of Tynemouth, Bournemouth and the many other river mouth named towns of the UK, Blyth would ...
Jun 12, 2016 · The River Pont is 37km (23m) in a direct line. It is 32.7km (20.32m) from source to confluence approx. Second Bridge over the River Blyth looking towards the source. It is a smaller cousin of its neighbour the River Tyne which is approximately 107km (66.5m) from the source of the North Tyne near Keilder to the mouth.
The Blyth River was named by Francis Cadell on 17 June 1867 after the Hon Arthur Blyth who was born in 1823, educated in Birmingham and who came to South Australia with his father, William Blyth, a pioneer colonist, City Councillor in Adelaide. Arthur Blyth entered Parliament in 1855 and represented Gumeracha in 1857.
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Dec 6, 2016 · Apart from the River Blyth and its tributary the River Pont, the source of which lies further West from the estuary than the source of the River Blyth itself, there are twenty-six named burns and sikes which feed into the River Blyth. This is about the interesting sites and settlements along the valleys that share a common connection and heritage.
