River Severn
— — the river that climbs back upstream once a month.
Not only on a wall.
“The longest river in Britain, 220 miles from a peat bog on Plynlimon in mid-Wales down through Shrewsbury, Ironbridge, Worcester, and Gloucester to the Bristol Channel. The Severn Bore runs upstream on the largest spring tides, a wall of water that surfers ride for miles. At Ironbridge it carries the first cast-iron bridge in the world, opened 1781.
River Severn, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
The Severn rises on Plynlimon (Pumlumon Fawr), a peat-topped hill of 752 metres in the Cambrian Mountains of mid-Wales, and runs 220 miles (354 kilometres) southeast through Shropshire, Worcestershire, and Gloucestershire to the Severn Estuary and the Bristol Channel. It is the longest river in the United Kingdom by a small margin over the Thames. Major towns along its course include Newtown, Welshpool, Shrewsbury, Ironbridge, Bewdley, Worcester, Tewkesbury, and Gloucester. The estuary carries the second-highest tidal range in the world, around 15 metres at Avonmouth.
The Severn Bore is the river's signature. On the largest spring tides, around the equinoxes, an incoming wall of water funnels into the narrowing estuary and runs upstream past Gloucester as a wave a metre or more high. The Environment Agency publishes a star-rated bore timetable each year. Surfers have ridden the wave since 1955, when Colonel Jack Churchill made the first recorded run. The longest documented ride, by Steve King in 2006, covered seven and a half miles along the river.
The Iron Bridge crosses the Severn at Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire, the first major cast-iron bridge in the world. Cast at Abraham Darby III's foundry in Coalbrookdale and opened on New Year's Day 1781, the bridge is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site as the symbolic birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. Worcester Cathedral, on the river's east bank, holds the tomb of King John from 1216. Tewkesbury Abbey, where the Severn meets the Avon, is one of the largest Norman churches surviving in England.