River Ribble

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, Ribchester and Preston, before emptying into the Irish Sea between Lytham St. Annes and Southport, a length of 75 miles (121 km).

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 northernmost extent of the ancient kingdom of Mercia. At the time of the Domesday Book, the river formed the northern boundary of an area of land (known as Inter Ripam et Mersam) that was included in the Domesday information for Cheshire, though it was probably not formally part of the county 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.

The Normal Tidal Limit (NTL) of the river is at Fishwick Bottoms, between Preston and Walton-le-Dale.

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, 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.

Settlements

Horton in Ribblesdale

Stainforth

Stackhouse

Langcliffe

Giggleswick

Nappa

Hundred End

Hesketh Bank

Settle

Halton West

Paythorne

Sawley

West Bradford

Horrocksford

Clitheroe

Great Mitton

Little Town

Ribchester

Samlesbury

Walton-le-Dale

Preston

Penwortham

Lytham

Banks

Tributaries

Estuary to Preston

Tidal bore on the Ribble.

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

Many 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 Paythorne

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

Paythorne 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

Cosh Knott Well

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

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

Name

The River Ribble gives its name to the local government borough of Ribble Valley and the Ribble Valley parliamentary constituency, as well as the Borough of South Ribble. The Ribble Bus Company once operated throughout North West England. The Ribble also lends its name to the Ribble Steam Railway, Ribble Cycles, a bicycle manufacturer based in Preston, and Ribble Valley Inns.

References

Notes

^ "River Ribble Information (pdf file)". Mersey Basin Campaign Official Website. http://www.merseybasin.org.uk/information.asp?page=1&pagesize=5&confirmed=1&id=0&docid=72. Retrieved 2008-01-26. 

^ Morgan (1978); pp. 269c301c,d.

^ Harris and Thacker (1987). write on page 252:

Certainly there were links between Cheshire and south Lancashire before 1000, when Wulfric Spot held lands in both territories. Wulfric's estates remained grouped together after his death, when they were left to his brother Aelfhelm, and indeed there still seems to have been some kind of connexion in 1086, when south Lancashire was surveyed together with Cheshire by the Domesday commissioners. Nevertheless, the two territories do seem to have been distinguished from one another in some way and it is not certain that the shire-moot and the reeves referred to in the south Lancashire section of Domesday were the Cheshire ones.

^ Phillips and Phillips (2002). pp. 2631.

^ Crosby, A. (1996). writes on page 31:

The Domesday Survey (1086) included south Lancashire with Cheshire for convenience, but the Mersey, the name of which means 'boundary river' is known to have divided the kingdoms of Northumbria and Mercia and there is no doubt that this was the real boundary.

^ Hutton, p. 218

^ Malcor, L.A. (1999). Lucius Artorius Castus Retrieval Date: January 26, 2008.

The RIver Ribble bursts its banks in the 1990s leading pleople to flee their homes and streets. Lorries had no choice but to drive through the accessing road.

Bibliography

Crosby, A. (1996). A History of Cheshire. (The Darwen County History Series.) Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Phillimore & Co. Ltd. ISBN 0850339324.

Harris, B. E., and Thacker, A. T. (1987). The Victoria History of the County of Chester. (Volume 1: Physique, Prehistory, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and Domesday). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0197227619.

Hutton, R. (1991) The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles, Oxford : Blackwell, ISBN 0631172882

Morgan, P. (1978). Domesday Book Cheshire: Including Lancashire, Cumbria, and North Wales. Chichester, Sussex: Phillimore & Co. Ltd. ISBN 0850331404.

Phillips A. D. M., and Phillips, C. B. (2002), A New Historical Atlas of Cheshire. Chester, UK: Cheshire County Council and Cheshire Community Council Publications Trust. ISBN 0904532461.

Greenhalgh, M (2009). Ribble: river and valley, a local and natural history. Lancaster, Carnegie Publishing. ISBN 9781859361351.

External links

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Riverworks

http://save-the-ribble.blogspot.com/

http://www.ribbletrust.org.uk/

Coordinates: 5345 246 / 53.75N 2.767W / 53.75; -2.767

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