River Trent

The River Trent is one of the major rivers of England. Its source is in Staffordshire between Biddulph and Mow Cop and its course flows through the Midlands until it joins the Humber Estuary and then the North Sea.

It is unusual, in England, for flowing North, and also unusual in exhibiting a tidal bore.

The river marks the boundary between the provinces of two English Kings of Arms, Norroy and Clarenceaux.

Towns and cities on the river include:

• Stoke on Trent
• near Rugeley
• Burton-upon-Trent
• Nottingham
• Newark

Tributaries

Among its tributaries are the:

• Derwent
• Dove
• Soar
• Tame.

See also

• Rivers of the United Kingdom