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River Trent

The Trent is the third-longest river in England, nearly 300 kilometres long, flowing from the Staffordshire moorlands through the Midlands to join the Ouse and form the Humber estuary. Its upper valley was the heartland of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia, and in the Middle Ages it was regarded as the dividing line between northern and southern England.

River Trent
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). River Trent. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/river-trent
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