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River Stour
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Stour is the name of several rivers in England:
- River Stour, East Anglia
- River Stour, Worcestershire
- River Stour, Warwickshire
- River Stour, Kent. The source rivers are: River East Stour, River Upper Great Stour, River Great Stour, River Little Stour.
- River Stour, Dorset
The river-name Stour, very common in England, does not occur at all in Wales;[1] it is of ambiguous origin: recently[2] it has been suggested that an Old European river-name was taken for an Old English adjective.
- ^ O.G.S. Crawford, "Celtic place-names in England", The Archaeological Journal (British Archaeological Association) 2nd ser. 27 1920:144; Crawford noted two tributaries of the Po near Turin, spelled Sture.
- ^ Richard Coates, "Stour and Blyth as English river-names" English Language and Linguistics 10 Cambridge University Press (2006:23-29).