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River Leen
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The River Leen rises in the Robin Hood Hills just outside Kirkby-in-Ashfield. It then flows through the grounds of Newstead Abbey and on through Bestwood Country Park, and following the route of the Leen Valley into suburban and urban Nottingham, passing through Bulwell, Basford, Radford, and Lenton before joining up with the River Trent. The original settlement of Nottingham was built upon the River Leen, with the River Trent flowing over a mile to the south of the old town.
Leen is a corruption through various renderings of the Celtic word Llyn for lake or pool, and A.S. “hlynna” = streamlet. Some of the surrounding villages derived their name from the River Leen. Lenton: (Leen-ton) “ton” being the Saxon word for village and Linby (Leen-by) “by” Danish for town on the Leen.
The current building works on the University of Nottingham's Jubilee Campus will 'open up' the river's urban route, as it is brought out of the concrete channel originally built to prevent the flooding of the now-demolished Raleigh cycle factory. Plans include the creation of a small lake fed by the river and a more meandering course for it through the campus.
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