List of estuaries in England
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The following is a list of estuaries
Estuary
An estuary is a partly enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea....

 in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

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  • Adur Estuary
  • Alnmouth Estuary
  • Alt Estuary
  • Arun Estuary
  • Avon Estuary
  • Axe Estuary
  • Beaulieu River
    Beaulieu River
    The Beaulieu River , formerly known as the River Exe, is a small river flowing south through the New Forest in the county of Hampshire in southern England. The river is some long, of which the last are tidal...

  • Blackwater Estuary
    Blackwater Estuary
    The Blackwater Estuary is the estuary of the Essex River Blackwater in south-east England.Oysters have been harvested from the estuary for more than a thousand years and there are remains of Anglo-Saxon era fish traps. At the head of the estuary is the town of Maldon, which is a centre of salt...

  • Blue Anchor Bay
  • Blyth Estuary
  • Breydon Water
    Breydon Water
    Breydon Water is a massive stretch of sheltered estuary at Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England. It is at gateway to the Norfolk Broads. It is the UK's largest protected wetland. It is 5 km long and more than 1.5 km wide in places...

  • Bridgwater Bay
    Bridgwater Bay
    Bridgwater Bay is on the Bristol Channel, north of Bridgwater in Somerset, England at the mouth of the River Parrett and the end of the River Parrett Trail. It consists of large areas of mud flats, saltmarsh, sandflats and shingle ridges, some of which are vegetated...

  • Camel Estuary
  • Chichester Harbour
    Chichester Harbour
    Chichester Harbour is a large natural harbour to the south west of the city of Chichester on the Solent. It straddles the boundary of West Sussex and Hampshire. Geographically it is a ria. It is one of four natural harbours in that area of the coastline, the others being Portsmouth Harbour,...

  • Christchurch Harbour
    Christchurch Harbour
    Christchurch Harbour is a natural harbour in the county of Dorset, on the south coast of England named after the nearby town of Christchurch.Two Rivers the Avon and the Stour flow into the Harbour at its northwest corner. The harbour is generally shallow and due to the tidal harmonics in the...

  • Colne Estuary
  • Coquet Estuary
  • Crouch-Roach Estaury
  • Cuckmere Estuary
  • Dart Estuary
  • Deben Estuary
  • Dee Estuary
    Dee Estuary
    The Dee Estuary is a large estuary by means of which the River Dee flows into Liverpool Bay. The estuary starts near Shotton after a five miles 'canalised' section and the river soon swells to be several miles wide forming the boundary between the Wirral Peninsula in north-west England and...

  • Dengie Flats
  • Duddon Estuary
    Duddon Estuary
    The Duddon Estuary is the sandy, gritty estuary of the River Duddon that lies between Morecambe Bay and the west Cumbrian coast.It opens into the Irish Sea to the north of the Furness peninsula; Walney Island forming part of its southern edge...

  • Eastern Yar
    Eastern Yar
    The River Yar on the Isle of Wight, England, rises in a chalk coomb in St. Catherine's Down near Niton, close to the southern point of the island...

  • Erme Estuary
  • Esk Estuary
  • Exe Estuary
    Exe Estuary
    The Exe Estuary is an estuary on the south coast of Devon, England.The estuary starts just to the south of the city of Exeter, and extends south for approximately eight miles to meet the English Channel...

  • Fal Estuary
  • Fowey Estuary
  • Gannel Estuary
  • Hamford Water
  • Hayle Estuary
    Hayle Estuary
    The Hayle Estuary is an estuary in west Cornwall, United Kingdom.The estuary of the River Hayle consists of a main channel, with several other nearby tidal areas, including Lelant Saltings, Copperhouse Creek and Carnsew Pool ....

  • Helford Estuary
  • Humber Estuary
  • Inner Solway Estuary
  • Inner Thames Estuary
  • Langstone Harbour
    Langstone Harbour
    Langstone Harbour is an inlet of the English Channel in Hampshire, sandwiched between Portsea Island to the south and west, Hayling Island to the south and east, and Langstone to the north. Geographically it is a ria....

  • Lindisfarne & Budle Bay
  • Looe Estuary
    Looe Estuary
    The Looe Estuary is an estuary in the southeastern part of Cornwall in south-west England, which leads to the mouth of the River Looe in Looe Bay.The town of Looe sits on the west and east side of the estuary.-External links:*...

  • Lymington Estuary
  • Maplin Sands
    Maplin Sands
    The Maplin Sands are mudflats on the northern bank of the Thames estuary, off Foulness Island, near Southend-on-Sea in Essex, England, though they actually lie within the neighbouring borough of Rochford...

  • Medina River
    Medina River
    The Medina River is located in south central Texas, USA, in the Medina Valley. Named after Pedro Medina, a Spanish engineer, by Alonso de León, Spanish governor of Coahuila, New Spain in 1689. It was also known as the Rio Mariano, Rio San Jose, or Rio de Bagres...

  • Medway Estuary
  • Mersey Estuary
  • Morecambe Bay
    Morecambe Bay
    Morecambe Bay is a large bay in northwest England, nearly due east of the Isle of Man and just to the south of the Lake District National Park. It is the largest expanse of intertidal mudflats and sand in the United Kingdom, covering a total area of 310 km².-Natural features:The rivers Leven,...

  • Newtown River
    Newtown River
    Newtown River is a large natural inland harbour located on the Isle of Wight's northwestern coast. It is sometimes also referred to as Newtown Creek....

  • North Norfolk Estuary
  • Ore / Alde / Butley Estuary
  • Orwell Estuary
  • Otter Estuary
  • Oulton Broad
    Oulton Broad
    Oulton Broad refers to both the lake and the suburb of Lowestoft in Suffolk, England located 2 miles west of the centre of the town.-Oulton Broad:...

  • Ouse Estuary
  • Pagham Harbour
    Pagham Harbour
    Pagham Harbour is a natural harbour on England's south coast. It is south of the city of Chichester and near the towns of Pagham and Selsey.Geographically it is the smallest and most easterly of the harbours of the Solent....

  • Pegwell Bay
    Pegwell Bay
    Pegwell Bay is a shallow inlet in the English Channel coast at the estuary of the River Stour between Ramsgate and Sandwich in Kent. Situated in the bay is a large nature reserve, known for its migrating waders and wildfowl, with a complete series of seashore habitats including extensive mudflats...

  • Plymouth Sound
    Plymouth Sound
    Plymouth Sound, or locally just The Sound, is a bay at Plymouth in England.Its southwest and southeast corners are Penlee Point in Cornwall and Wembury Point on Devon, a distance of about 3 nautical miles . Its northern limit is Plymouth Hoe giving a north-south distance of nearly 3 nautical miles...

  • Poole Harbour
    Poole Harbour
    Poole Harbour is a large natural harbour in Dorset, southern England, with the town of Poole on its shores. The harbour is a drowned valley formed at the end of the last ice age and is the estuary of several rivers, the largest being the Frome. The harbour has a long history of human settlement...

  • Portsmouth Harbour
    Portsmouth Harbour
    Portsmouth Harbour is a large natural harbour in Hampshire, England. Geographically it is a ria: formerly it was the valley of a stream flowing from Portsdown into the Solent River. The city of Portsmouth lies to the east on Portsea Island, and Gosport to the west on the mainland...

  • Ribble Estuary
  • Rother Estuary
  • Salcombe and Kingsbridge Estuary
  • Severn Estuary
    Severn Estuary
    The Severn Estuary is the estuary of the River Severn, the longest river in Great Britain. Its high tidal range means it has been at the centre of discussions in the UK regarding renewable energy.-Geography:...

  • Southampton Water
    Southampton Water
    Southampton Water is a tidal estuary north of the Solent and the Isle of Wight in England. The city of Southampton lies at its most northerly point. Along its salt marsh-fringed western shores lie the New Forest villages of Hythe and "the waterside", Dibden Bay, and the Esso oil refinery at Fawley...

  • Stour Estuary
  • Taw-Torridge Estuary
  • Tees Estuary
  • Teign Estuary
  • Thames Estuary
    Thames Estuary
    The Thames Mouth is the estuary in which the River Thames meets the waters of the North Sea.It is not easy to define the limits of the estuary, although physically the head of Sea Reach, near Canvey Island on the Essex shore is probably the western boundary...

  • The Fleet and Portland Harbour
  • The Swale
    The Swale
    The name The Swale refers to the strip of sea separating North Kent from the Isle of Sheppey.- History :The name "Swale" is Old English in origin, and is believed to mean "swirling, rushing river", or "rushing water"....

  • The Wash
    The Wash
    The Wash is the square-mouthed bay and estuary on the northwest margin of East Anglia on the east coast of England, where Norfolk meets Lincolnshire. It is among the largest estuaries in the United Kingdom...

  • Tweed Estuary
  • Tyne Estuary
  • Wansbeck Estuary
  • Wear Estuary
  • Western Yar
    Western Yar
    The River Yar on the Isle of Wight, England, rises near the beach at Freshwater Bay, on the south coast of the island and flows only a few miles north to Yarmouth, on the north coast, where it meets the Solent. Most of the river is a tidal estuary...

  • Wootton Creek
    Wootton Creek
    Wootton Creek is a tidal estuary that flows into the Solent on the north coast of the Isle of Wight.On the west bank of the creek is the village of Wootton, whilst on the east bank is the village of Fishbourne. The estuary is bridged by the main Ryde to Newport road, where there once was a tide mill...

  • Yealm Estuary

Source

  • Davidson, N. C. & A. L. Buck (1997) An inventory of UK estuaries. Volume 1. Introduction and methodology Joint Nature Conservation Committee
    Joint Nature Conservation Committee
    The Joint Nature Conservation Committee is the statutory adviser to the UK Government on national and international nature conservation. Its work contributes to maintaining and enriching biological diversity, conserving geological features and sustaining natural systems...

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