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River Ribble
] The River Ribble at Ribchester. Photograph by Stuart Grimshaw
Origin	Confluence of Gayle Beck and Cam Beck, Selside
Mouth	Irish Sea at Lytham
Basin countries	England
Length	121 km (75 miles)
Source elevation	246 m (807 ft)

The River Ribble is a river that runs through North Yorkshire and Lancashire, in the North of England. The river's watershed also includes parts of Greater Manchester around Wigan.

Geography

The Ribble begins at the confluence of the Gayle Beck and Cam Beck near the famous viaduct at Ribblehead, in the shadow of the Yorkshire three peaks.

It flows through Settle, Clitheroe and Preston, before emptying into the Irish Sea between Lytham St. Annes and Southport, a length of 75 miles.

The main tributaries of the Ribble are the Hodder and Calder which join the river near Great Mitton, the River Darwen which joins at Walton-le-Dale and the River Douglas which joins near Hesketh Bank.

The Ribble Way is a long-distance footpath which follows the river for much of its course. The Ribble marked the ancient northern boundary of Mercia;[1] and at the time of the Domesday Book was the northern boundary of Cheshire.

The river is connected to both the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and the Lancaster Canal (via the Ribble Link). The river downstream of Preston was actively dredged when Preston was an active port; this is no longer done and silt from the river is now spreading more widely over the (sand) beaches around Fairhaven and St. Annes.

Its estuary forms part of the Ribble and Alt Estuaries Special Protection Area for wildlife.

Public works

The River Ribble catchment is covered by the Mersey Basin Campaign, a partnership which was established in 1985 to improve water quality and encourage waterside regeneration.

Preston City Council have published controversial plans to build a barrage across the River Ribble, in their 'Riverworks' proposals. The aim of these proposals is to build a water sports park on a section of the Ribble, coupled with over 4000 units of high quality housing and businesses in the river's flood plain. Some local residents are opposing these plans, arguing that they endanger wildlife, increase flood risk to local housing and damage greenbelt areas. These residents have set up the 'Save The Ribble' campaign. Parts of the river are a County Biological Heritage Site.

The Ribble would appear to have been known in Roman times as the Belisama,^[1] possibly giving its name to Samlesbury. Ptolemy's "Belisama aest." seems to represent the estuary of the Ribble.

History

The banks of the Ribble have been posited as a possible location for King Arthur's tenth battle, on the banks of a river "Tribruit", as alluded to in his Historia Brittonum by Nennius [2].

Settlements

Horton in Ribblesdale
Stainforth
Stackhouse
Langcliffe
Giggleswick
Nappa
Settle
Halton West
Paythorne
Sawley
West Bradford
Horrocksford
Clitheroe
Great Mitton
Little Town
Ribchester
Samlesbury
Walton-le-Dale
Preston
Penwortham
Lytham

Tributaries

Estuary to Preston

Estuary to Douglas

Crossens Pool
- The Sluice
  - Middle Drain
  - Back Drain
  - Ring Ditch
  - Boundary Drain
  - Tarleton Runner
    - Mere Brow
      - School Drain
    - Pale Ditch
  - Mere Brow Watercourse
  - Midge Hall Drain
  - Boat House Sluice
    - Langley's Brook
  - Rufford Boundary Sluice
- Three Pools Waterway
  - Fine Jane's Brook
    - Holly Brook
    - Sandy Brook
    - Old Canal
  - Boundary Brook
    - New Cut Brook
  - Sandy Brook
    - The Old Pool
    - Black Brook
    - Drummersdale Drain
      - Brook Cut and Mill Stream
    - Bullen's Brook
    - Eas Brook
      - Hurlston Brook
Main Drain
- Liggard Brook
- Wrea Brook
Hundred End Gutter
Pool Stream

River Douglas watershed

River Douglas or River Asland
- Longton Brook
- Centre Drain
- Carr Heys Watercourse
- Tarra Carr Gutter
  - Hall Pool
- Dunkirk Dib
- Rakes Brook
- Carr Brook
- Strine Brook
- River Yarrow
  - River Lostock
    - Wymott Brook
    - Clayton Brook
    - Slack Brook
    - Whave's Brook
  - Spent Brook
  - Syd Brook
    - Howe Brook
    - Pye Brook
  - Culbeck Brook
    - Chapel Brook
      - Ransnap Brook
      - German Brook
  - Hodge Brook
  - River Chor
  - Clancutt Brook
    - Tanyard Brook
    - Whittle Brook
  - Eller Brook
    - Moss Ditch
  - Black Brook
    - Tan House Brook
    - Warth Brook
      - Brinscall Brook
      - Fill Brook
  - Roaring Lum
  - Dean Brook
    - Hall Brook
    - Cote Slack
  - Limestone Brook
  - Green Withins Brook
- The Sluice
  - Mill
  - Old Reed Brook
- Main Ditch
- Eller Brook
  - Wham Ditch
  - Black Brook
  - Abbey Brook
    - New Park Brook
    - Castle Brook
    - Sefton Brook
      - Dungeon Brook
      - Dicket's Brook
        
        Goose Brook
- Mill Ditch
  - New Reed Brook
  - Bentley Brook
- River Tawd
  - Slate Brook
  - Grimshaw Brook
- Middlehurst Brook
- Dock Brook
- Alder Lane Brook
- Sprodley Brook
- Calico Brook
- Lees Brook
- Dean Brook
  - Sand Brook
- Ackhurst Brook
- Mill Brook
- Bradshaw Brook
- Close Brook
- Barley Brook
- Smithy Brook
  - Poolstock Brook
    - Ince Brook
      - Hawkley Brook
      - Reed Brook
        
        Park Brook
- Clarington Brook
- Bradley Brook
- Bucklow Brook
  - Moss Ditch
  - Buckow Brook
    - Hic-bibi Brook
      - Stars Brook
        
        Almond Brook
        
        Tunley Brook
- Pearl Brook
- Arley Brook

Douglas to Preston

Freckleton Pool
- Dow Brook
  - Spen Brook
  - Carr Brook
    - Wrongway Brook
- Middle Pool
Savick Brook
- Deepdale Brook
- Lady Head Runnel
- Sharoe Brook
  - Moss Leach Brook
- Eaves Brook
Mill Brook
The Mains Brook

River Darwen watershed

River Darwen
- Hennel Brook
  - Cockshott Brook
- Mank Brooks
  - Black Brook
    - Hatchwood Brook
  - Fowler Brook
    - Drum Head Brook
      - Gorton Brook
      - Mill Brook
    - Bank Head Brook
- Old Darwen
- Beeston Brook
  - Quaker Brook
- Hole Brook
  - Huntley Brook (North)
  - Huntley Brook (South)
- Alum House Brook
  - Arley Brook
- Trout Brook
- River Roddlesworth
  - Finnington Brook
  - Stockclough Brook
    - Whitehalgh Brook
      - Shaw Brook
      - Chapels Brook
      - Sheep Bridge Brook
  - Rake Brook
  - Calf Hey Brook
  - Ferny Bed Springs
- River Blakewater
  - Snig Brook
  - Audley Brook
  - Little Harwood Brook
    - Royshaw Clough
    - Seven Acre Brook
  - Knuzden Brook
- Scotshaw Brook
  - Moss Brook
  - Badger Brook
- Higher Croft Brook
  - Newfield Brook
- Davy Field Brook
  - Flash Brook
  - Grimshaw Brook
    - Waterside Brook
      - Mean Brook
        
        Sapling Clough
      - Hoddlesden Moss Brook
        
        Far Scotland Brook
      - Pickup Bank Brook
        
        Moss Brook
        
        Twitchells Brook
- Sunnyhurst Brook
  - Stepback Brook
- Bold Venture Brook
  - High Lumb Brook
    - Livesey Brook
- Kebbs Brook
  - Green Lowe Brook
- Bury Fold Brook
  - Old Briggs Brook
    - Duckshaw Brook
- Grain Brook
  - Bent Hall Brook
  - Deadman's Clough

Preston to Whalley

Swill Brook
Bezza Brook
- Wilcock Brook
  - Mellor Brook
Tun Brook
Stydd Brook
- Boyce's Brook
  - Cowley Brook
  - Page Brook
- Duddel Brook
Starling Brook
Dean Brook
- Bailey Brook
- Brownslow Brook
Dinckley Brook
- Park Brook
  - Blockers Brook^{[citation needed]}
  - Showley Brook
    - Knotts Brook
  - Tottering Brook
  - Zechariah Brook

River Calder watershed

River Calder
- Bushburn Brook
- Dean Brook
- Egg Syke Brook
- Rodger Hey Brook
- Sabden Brook
  - Badger Well Water
  - Wood House Brook
  - Cock Clough
- Clough Syke Brook
- Hyndburn Brook
  - Harwood Brook
    - Causeway Brook
  - Norden Brook
  - Spaw Brook
  - Shaw Brook
  - Bottom Syke
  - River Hyndburn
    - Church Brook
      - Accrington Brook
        
        Woodnook Water
        
        Warmden Brook
        
        Tom Dale Clough
  - White Ash Brook
    - Wolfenden Syke
    - Lottice Brook
  - Tinker Brook
    - Whams Brook
    - Jackhouse Brook
      - Cocker Brook
        
        White Syke
      - Cocker Lumb
- Syke Side Brook
  - Clough Brook
- Simonstone Brook
- Shorten Brook
- Dean Brook
  - Huntroyde Brook
- Castle Clough Brook
  - Castle Clough
- Green Brook
  - Shaw Brook
  - Sweet Clough
  - Hapton Clough
    - Thorny Bank Clough
    - Tower Brook
  - Habergham Clough
    - New Barn Clough
      - Helm Clough
    - Micklehurst Clough
      - Long Syke
- Whitaker Clough
  - Fir Trees Brook
    - West Close Clough
    - Acres Brook
- Moor Isles Clough
- Spurn Clough
- Pendle Water
  - Old Laund Clough
  - Edge End Brook
  - Walverden Water
    - Bradley Syke
    - Head Beck
      - Dobson Syke
    - Catlow Brook
      - Pighole Clough
      - Pathole Beck
      - New Laithe Clough
      - Float Bridge Beck
      - Swains Plat Clough
  - Colne Water
    - Swinden Clough
    - Wanless Water
      - Slipper Hill Clough
      - Houses Beck Moss
        
        Moss Houses Beck
    - Guy Syke
    - Church Clough Brook
    - Trawden Brook
      - Beardshaw Beck
      - Round Hole Beck
      - Will Moor Clough
    - River Laneshaw
      - High Laith Beck
        
        Sykes Beck
        
        Shawhead Beck
      - Monkroyd Beck
      - Hullown Beck
      - Swamp Syke
      - Laneshaw Brook
        
        Round Holes Beck
        
        Cat Stone Clough
    - Wycoller Beck
      - Ratten Clough
      - Smithy Clough
        
        Deep Clough Beck
        
        Nan Hole Clough
      - Turnhole Clough
        
        Butter Leach Clough
        
        Saucer Hill Clough
  - Blacko Water
    - Castor Gill
    - Claude's Clough
    - Admergill Water
      - Wicken Clough
      - Greystone Clough
      - Sandyford Clough
  - White Hough Water
    - Dimpenley Clough
    - Bird Holme Clough
    - Barley Water
      - Deep Clough
      - Black Moss Water
        
        Water Gate
        
        Warth Beck
    - Ogden Clough
      - Boar Clough
      - White Slacks
      - Dry Clough
- Barden Clough
- River Brun
  - River Don
    - Walshaw Clough
    - Thursden Brook
      - Ell Clough
      - Black Clough
        
        Hey Stacks Clough
        
        Tom Groove
  - Swinden Water
    - Hell Clough
  - Hurstwood Brook
    - Smallshaw Clough
  - Rock Water
    - Cant Clough Beck
- Everage Clough
  - Hole House Clough
    - Buck Clough
- Dick Clough
- Easden Clough
- Black Clough
- Green Clough
  - Copy Clough
    - Sheddon Clough

River Hodder watershed

River Hodder
- Cow Ark Brook
  - Mill Brook
  - Hagg Clough
- River Loud
  - Leagram Brook
    - Hill Clough
    - Burnslack Brook
  - Chipping Brook
- Greystoneley Brook
  - Hell Clough
  - Dinkling Green Brook
- Withins Clough
- Red Syke
- Fielding Clough
- Langden Brook
  - Hareden Brook
    - Lane Foot Brook
      - Fog Hill Clough
      - Cherry Gutter
    - Crackling Syke
    - Dimples Clough
  - Losterdale Brook
    - Trough Brook
  - Mere Clough Wham
  - Bleadale Water
  - Stransdale Brook
    - Stransdale Gutter
- Robin Clough
- River Dunsop
  - Brennand River
    - Round Hill Water
      - Brown Syke
  - Whitendale River
    - Sandy Gutter
- Black Brook
- Rough Syke
- Grey Gill
- Heaning Brook
- Birkett Brook
  - Crimpton Brook
- Foulscales Brook
  - Bonstone Brook
  - Crag Beck
- Easington Brook
  - Sough Clough
  - Rye Clough
  - Skelshaw Brook
  - Langcliff Cross Brook
    - Tinklers Brook
      - Anna Land Brook
  - Harrop Brook
  - Dean Slack Brook
- King Syke
- Dunnow Syke
- Croasdale Brook
  - Eller Beck
  - Lanshaw Brook
    - Davison's Syke
    - Clough Beck
    - Dunsop Brook
  - Hill Wood Syke
  - Moor Syke
    - Round Hill Syke
  - Black Brook
    - Hind Slack
- Barn Gill
  - Park Beck
  - Dugdale Syke
- Phynis Beck
  - Wain Hill Syke
- Bottoms Beck
  - Hesbert Hall Syke
  - Hindley Head Clough
  - Thorp Syke
  - Dob Dale Beck
    - Nursery Beck
      - Brock Clough Beck
    - Brown Hills Beck
      - Ash Clough Swamp
- Hasgill Beck
  - Cowgill Syke
  - Rigg Gill Syke
- Copter Syke
- Hare Clough Beck
- White Syke
- Kearsden Holes
- Red Syke

Whalley to Barnoldswick

Barrow Brook
Pig Hill Brook
Barrow Clough
Pendleton Brook
- Mearley Brook
  - Shaw Brook
  - Worston Brook
    - Rad Brook
- Howcroft Brook
Bashall Brook
- Hollins Clough
- Cow Hey Brook
  - Sandy Ford Brook
- Braddup Clough
- Elm Clough
Waddington Brook
- Coplow Brook
Greg Sike
West Bradford Brook
- Brocklehurst Brook
- Drakehouse Brook
  - Porters Brook
    - Bradford Brook
Moor Roads Sike
West Clough Brook
Grindleton Brook
Chatburn Brook
Smithies Brook
- Swanside Beck
  - Stankhill Beck
    - Gazegill or Rimington Beck
      - Thistleber Beck
        
        Eel Beck
        
        Widow Hill Beck
      - Skell Banks Syke
      - Howgill Beck
        
        Whytha Beck
        
        Collaver Syke
      - Crag Clough
  - Dudland Syke
    - Cow Gill Beck
- Ings Beck
  - Twiston Beck
    - Pendle Hill Brook
  - Clough Beck
  - Gill Beck
Rathmill Sike
Hollins Syke
Skinners Sike
Sliping Brook
- Hell Syke
- Hill Brook
Skirden Beck
- Holden Beck
  - Mear Gill
    - Fell Brook
      - Bay Gate Brook
      - Far Fields Brook
      - Black Brook
    - Holden Beck
      - Threap Green Brook
- Kirk Beck
  - Fox Gill Beck
    - Gill Bottom Beck
- Bier Beck
  - Hungrill Beck
    - Higher Syke
      - Bleara Syke
      - Varleys Syke
  - Cuddy Syke
- Monubent Beck
  - Hen Gill Beck
    - Agden Beck
      - Mere Syke
- Grunsagill Beck
  - Tosside Beck
    - Holden Beck or Moor End Beck
- New Gill Beck
  - Bond Beck
    - Little Beck
    - Sandy Syke
  - Walkers Clough
Fooden Gill
Park House Beck
Wheatley Beck
Ellenthorpe Gill

Barnoldswick to source

Stock Beck
- Spittle Syke
- Horton Beck
- Bottom Beck
  - Lodge Hill Syke
    - Old Park Syke
      - Wedacre Syke
      - Hesketh Rough Syke
- Flush Beck
- Hell Forest Dike
  - Turpit Gate Syke
  - Hayfield Dike
    - Tosber Syke
- Fools Syke
  - Ray Gill Water
    - Ray Gill
  - Horrox Gill
- Crownest Syke
- Gillians Beck
  - Moor Side Beck
East Beck
- Carholme Beck
Ray Gill
Ged Beck
Swinden Gill Beck
- Mallardale Beck
Mansell Beck
Pan Beck
- Hellifield Beck
- Gallaber Syke
  - Bend Gate Syke
- Kell Well Beck
Candle Rush Beck
Deep Dale Syke
Long Preston Beck
- Bookil Gill Beck
- Scaleber Beck
Old Field Syke
- Crow Hill Syke
Wigglesworth Beck
- Tofts Syke
- Rough Syke
Rathmell Beck
- Hollow Gill Beck
- Rathmell Goit
Skir Beck
Mear Beck
Swaw Beck
- Carr Beck
Tems Beck
- Huntworth Beck
Lodge Gill
Stainforth Beck
- Catrigg Beck
  - Cowside Beck
- Tongue Gill
  - Fornah Gill
How Beck
Blind Beck
Turn Dub
Selside Beck
- Gillgarth Beck
Coppy Gill

Pre-Ribble

Cam Beck

Cam Beck (aka Ling Gill Beck)
- Brow Gill Beck
- Ling Gill Beck
- Labour Gill
- Poverty Gill
- Hard Turf Gill
- Dry Gill
- Little Bank Gill
  - Foul Gutter
- Rush Gill
- Lamb Fold Gill
- Little Intake Gill
- Middle Gill
- Tur Gill
- Grainings Gill
- Red Sike
- Pot Close Gill
- Far End Gill
  - Cold Keld Gill

Gayle Beck

Gayle Beck
- Axletree Gill
- Gate Cote Gill
- White Earth Gill
- High Springs
- Lat Gill
- Long Gill
  - Mares Gill
  - Far Mares Gill
  - Shivery Gill
  - Jam Sike
- Ouster Gill

Miscellany

The River Ribble gives its name to Ribble Cycles, a bicycle manufacturer based in Preston, which is near the river.

Notes

^ Hutton, p. 218

References

Hutton, R. (1991) The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles, Oxford : Blackwell, ISBN 0-631-17288-2

External links

Riverworks

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