River Bain - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The River Bain is a river

River

A river is a natural watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, a lake, a sea, or another river. In a few cases, a river simply flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water. Small rivers may also be called by several other names, including...

in Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...

, England

England

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, and a tributary

Tributary

A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a main stem river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean...

of the River Witham

River Witham

The River Witham is a river, almost entirely in the county of Lincolnshire, in the east of England. It rises south of Grantham close to South Witham, at SK8818, passes Lincoln at SK9771 and at Boston, TF3244, flows into The Haven, a tidal arm of The Wash, near RSPB Frampton Marsh...

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The Bain rises in the Lincolnshire Wolds

Lincolnshire Wolds

The Lincolnshire Wolds is a range of hills in the county of Lincolnshire, England. It is a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty , and the highest area of land in eastern England between Yorkshire and Kent...

at Ludford

Ludford, Lincolnshire

Ludford is a village and parish in the English county of Lincolnshire. It comprises the adjacent villages of Ludford Magna and Ludford Parva.-Geography:It lies in East Lindsey, just outside of its bordering region, West Lindsey...

, a village

Village

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on The Viking Way

Viking Way

The Viking Way is a long distance footpath in England running between the Humber Bridge in North Lincolnshire and Oakham in Rutland. The Countryside Commission recognised the significance of the Viking Way as a high quality long distance walk linking other major routes in Eastern England, these...

long-distance footpath

Trail

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, and flows through or past the villages of Burgh on Bain

Burgh on Bain

Burgh on Bain is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The village is about 7 miles west of Louth. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 114....

, Biscathorpe

Biscathorpe

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, Donington on Bain

Donington on Bain

Donington on Bain is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies in the Lincolnshire Wolds about miles south-west of Louth and about six miles north of Horncastle. It sits on the east bank of the River Bain...

, Goulceby with Asterby

Goulceby with Asterby

The village of Goulceby and its conjoined hamlet of Asterby, both in the Wolds of Lincolnshire, England, are marked together on local road signs as one settlement: Goulceby with Asterby, although the two form separate civil parishes. Goulceby was the birthplace of William Marwood, hangman, who...

and Hemingby

Hemingby

Hemingby is a dispersed village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies about north of the market town of Horncastle and just west of the junction of the B1225 road and A158. It is surrounded by the villages of Baumber, Goulceby and West Ashby...

before reaching the town of Horncastle where it is joined by the River Waring

River Waring

The River Waring is a small river in Lincolnshire, England, and a tributary of the River Bain. The Waring rises in the parish of Belchford and runs through Belchford village, passing between the villages of Fulletby, West Ashby and Low Toynton before arriving at Horncastle, where it divides...

, which rises at Belchford

Belchford

Belchford is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, about 11 km north of Horncastle and just to the east of the A153 road...

, 5 miles (8 km) to the north east of Horncastle.

After leaving Horncastle, the Bain flows through the villages of Kirkby on Bain

Kirkby on Bain

Kirkby on Bain is a village and civil parish in the English county of Lincolnshire.-Geography:Kirkby on Bain lies on the River Bain between Horncastle and Coningsby just west of the A153. Administratively it forms part of the district of East Lindsey. Close by to the north is the village of...

, Coningsby

Coningsby

Coningsby is a village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.-Geography:Taking its name from the Old Norse 'konungr' meaning 'King' with an Old Norse suffix 'by' meaning 'the settlement of' which gives Coningsby the meaning 'The Settlement of the King'...

and Tattershall

Tattershall

Tattershall is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, located on the A153 Horncastle to Sleaford road, east of the point where that road crosses the River Witham. At its eastern end, Tattershall adjoins the village of Coningsby, to the north of the village...

, and joins the Witham at Dogdyke

Dogdyke

Dogdyke is a hamlet near Tattershall, Lincolnshire, England. It is at the confluence of the Rivers Bain and Witham, and close to where the River Slea joins the Witham.Nearby settlements are the hamlets of Chapel Hill, Tattershall Bridge and Hawthorn Hill....

. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and after protracted negotiation, a group of venture capital

Venture capital

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ists led by Sir Joseph Banks

Joseph Banks

Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, GCB, PRS was an English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. He took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage . Banks is credited with the introduction to the Western world of eucalyptus, acacia, mimosa and the genus named after him,...

canal

Canal

Canals are man-made channels for water. There are two types of canal:#Waterways: navigable transportation canals used for carrying ships and boats shipping goods and conveying people, further subdivided into two kinds:...

ized the Bain between Horncastle and the Witham. The Horncastle Canal

Horncastle Canal

The Horncastle Canal was a broad canal which ran 11 miles from the River Witham to Horncastle in Lincolnshire, England, through twelve locks largely following the course of River Bain...

opened in 1802 and was an important goods route before the coming of the railway

History of rail transport in Great Britain

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. It is no longer navigable, but is used extensively by anglers

Fishing

Fishing is the activity of trying to catch wild fish. Fish are normally caught in the wild. Techniques for catching fish include hand gathering, spearing, netting, angling and trapping....

, canoeists

Kayak

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, and naturalists

Natural history

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The river contains significant populations of Chub

European chub

The European chub , sometimes called the round chub, fat chub, chevin, pollard or simply "the" chub, is a freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae...

(Leuciscus cephalus), Bream, Roach

Rutilus

Rutilus is a genus of fishes in the family Cyprinidae, commonly called roaches. Locally, the name "roach" without any further qualifiers is also used for particular species, particularly the Common Roach Rutilus (Latin for "shining, red, golden, auburn") is a genus of fishes in the family...

and Rudd

Rudd

The common rudd Scardinius erythropthalmus is a bentho-pelagic freshwater fish, widely spread in Europe and middle Asia, around the basins of the North, Baltic, Black, Caspian and Aral seas.-Artificially introduced:...

, as well as Brown trout

Brown trout

The brown trout and the sea trout are fish of the same species....

, Pike

Northern Pike

The northern pike , is a species of carnivorous fish of the genus Esox...

, Eel

European eel

The European eel, Anguilla anguilla, is a species of eel, a snake-like, catadromous fish. They can reach in exceptional cases a length of 1½ m, but are normally much smaller, about 60–80 cm, and rarely more than 1 m....

, and smaller species such as Miller's Thumb

European bullhead

The bullhead is a freshwater fish that is widely distributed in Europe, mainly in rivers. It is a member of the Cottidae family, a type of sculpin...

(Cottus gobio), Gudgeon

Gudgeon (fish)

Gudgeon is a common name for a number of small freshwater fishes of the families Cyprinidae, Eleotridae or Ptereleotridae. Most gudgeons are elongate, bottom-dwelling fish, many of which live in rapids and other fast moving water....

and Stone Loach

Stone Loach

The Stone loach, Barbatula barbatula, is a species of ray-finned fish in the Balitoridae family.It is found in Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Liechtenstein,...

(Nœmacheilus barbatus). It is also home to the threatened species

Threatened species

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of crayfish

Crayfish

Crayfish, crawfish, or crawdads – members of the superfamilies Astacoidea and Parastacoidea – are freshwater crustaceans resembling small lobsters, to which they are related...

Austropotamobius pallipes
Austropotamobius pallipes
Austropotamobius pallipes is an endangered European freshwater crayfish, and the only species of crayfish native to the British Isles. Its common names include white-clawed crayfish and Atlantic stream crayfish.-Distribution and ecology:...

, though there are also populations of the introduced American signal crayfish

Signal crayfish

The signal crayfish, Pacifastacus leniusculus, is a North American species of crayfish. It was introduced to Europe in the 1960s to supplement the Scandinavian Astacus astacus fisheries, which were being damaged by crayfish plague, but the imports turned out to be a carrier of that disease...

(Pasifastacus leniusculus), which competes with the native species for food.

The Bain valley was formed by a glacier

Glacier

A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. At least 0.1 km² in area and 50 m thick, but often much larger, a glacier slowly deforms and flows due to stresses induced by its weight...

in the most recent ice-age and, although small, is very obvious. The River Bain is very susceptible to flooding and many floods have occurred during its history, about once evey 30–50 years, the most recent being the 2007 United Kingdom floods

2007 United Kingdom floods

The 2007 United Kingdom floods were a series of destructive floods that occurred in various areas across the country during the summer of 2007. The most severe floods occurred across Northern Ireland on 12 June; East Yorkshire and The Midlands on 15 June; Yorkshire, The Midlands, Gloucestershire,...

, when the river overtopped its banks all along its course. Horncastle was particularly badly hit.

Settlements in the valley include Tattershall

Tattershall

, Coningsby

Coningsby

, Kirkby on Bain

Kirkby on Bain

, Haltham

Haltham

Haltham is a village and civil parish which lies on the east bank of the River Bain, about south of the town of Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England...

, Roughton

Roughton, Lincolnshire

Roughton is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.The village lies about south of Horncastle and near the hamlets of Thornton) and Kirkby-on-Bain...

, Horncastle, Hemingby