18-729: River Tame is a Celtic river name, used in England to refer to: River Tame, Greater Manchester , a river that meets the Goyt to form the Mersey River Tame, West Midlands , the largest tributary of the Trent River Tame, North Yorkshire , a tributary of the Leven and then the Tees See also [ edit ] River Tamar , a river that forms part of
36-701: A survey in 2000–2002. In 2018 a study found that the river contained the greatest amount of microplastic contamination of any river yet surveyed. River Goyt The River Goyt is a tributary of the River Mersey in North West England . The name Goyt may be derived from the Middle English gote , meaning "a watercourse, a stream". Derivation from the Welsh gwyth meaning "vein" has been suggested, but described as "doubtful". The Goyt rises on
54-648: Is 1¼ miles above the confluence with the Mersey and contains the great majority of the final flow (with the exception of waste water from a concrete facility). The river has been a border from the earliest times between the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Northumbria and Mercia . For its course after the Division Bridge in Mossley the river marks much of the historical boundary dividing Cheshire and Lancashire . The Tame joins
72-611: Is joined by the River Sett ) and Marple Bridge . Having been joined by the River Etherow , the Goyt joins the River Tame at Stockport , forming the River Mersey . The section of the Goyt valley between Etherow Country Park and Whaley Bridge is followed by the Goyt Way , a 10-mile (16 km) walking route and part of the longer Midshires Way . The River Goyt is reputedly haunted by
90-673: The River Goyt at Stockport , forming the River Mersey which eventually flows into the Irish Sea just past Liverpool . The name Tame is attached to rivers across the UK in several forms, including Thames , Thame , Taff , and Tamar , alongside two other instances of Tame . The name is Celtic in origin, but the meaning is uncertain. Dark river or dark one has been suggested, but Ekwall finds it unlikely; Mills suggests it may simply mean river (c.f. Avon , Humber , Tyne ). The names of
108-538: The River Goyt to form the River Mersey . The Tame rises on Denshaw Moor in Greater Manchester , close to the border with the modern metropolitan county of West Yorkshire but within the historic West Riding of Yorkshire . Most of the river's catchment lies on the western flank of the Pennines . The named river starts as compensation flow (that is, a guaranteed minimum discharge ) from Readycon Dean Reservoir in
126-506: The Mersey's co-tributaries Etherow and Goyt are equally ancient and mysterious. Mersey is an Old English name (i.e. more recent) derived from "river at the boundary". The earlier name is lost: Dodgson suggests that Tame may have been the name for the whole of the Mersey. The Metropolitan Borough of Tameside is named after the river. While it flows through the borough, the river neither rises nor finishes inside its boundaries; however, most of
144-502: The above-named urban areas resulted in the Tame being a much polluted waterway. As well as industrial pollution from the dyes and bleaches used in textile mills, effluent from specialised paper-making cigarette papers , engineering effluents, including base metal washings from battery manufacture, phenols from the huge coal-gas plant in Denton, rain-wash from roads and abandoned coal spoil heaps there
162-494: The border between Devon and Cornwall River Thame , a river that flows through Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, a tributary of the Thames River Thames , a river that flows through Oxford, Reading, and London [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
180-643: The built-up area alongside the river is in Tameside. The fish species present vary along the river's length. The lower reaches (near Reddish Vale Country Park) are home to coarse fish such as gudgeon ( Gobio gobio ), chub ( Leuciscus cephalus ), and roach ( Rutilus rutilus ); pike ( Esox lucius ) and perch ( Perca fluviatilis ) are also present. The upper reaches (above Ashton) support brown trout ( Salmo trutta ) and smaller numbers of some coarse fish. The populations are self-sustaining. Migratory fish such as Atlantic salmon and sea trout cannot navigate
198-552: The ghost of a girl whose Royalist lover drowned in the river. The river's Environment Agency pollution classification changed from moderate to poor in its lower section from the Etherow to the Mersey in 2016, and in 2015 for the New Mills to Whaley Bridge length. Otherwise the quality is moderate. List of mills in New Mills area "The Goyt Valley (Fact Sheet: 16)" (PDF) . Peak District National Park Authority. Archived from
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#1732844931537216-521: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=River_Tame&oldid=546468550 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages River Tame, Greater Manchester The River Tame flows through Greater Manchester , England. It rises on Denshaw Moor and flows to Stockport where it joins
234-541: The moors above Denshaw . The source is a little further north, just over the county border in West Yorkshire, close to the Pennine Way . The highest point of the catchment is Greater Manchester's highest point at Black Chew Head . The river flows generally south through Delph , Uppermill , Mossley , Stalybridge , Ashton-under-Lyne , Dukinfield , Haughton Green , Denton and Hyde . The Division Bridge (which spans
252-581: The moors of Axe Edge , near the River Dane and the Cat and Fiddle Inn . The area is known as the Upper Goyt Valley . The old Cat and Fiddle Road from Buxton to Macclesfield crosses the river just as it turns northwards to flow down its well-known valley. The river then flows under Derbyshire Bridge, which was the old boundary between Derbyshire and Cheshire . Later it reaches an old packhorse bridge that
270-435: The river as the weir at Reddish Vale is too tall and has no fish pass. Furthermore, are all declared as salmonid waters by statute, and as such have set physical and chemical water quality objectives. Hull Brook is a Site of Biological Importance (SBI) . Hull Brook and Castleshaw Reservoir have populations of white-clawed crayfish . The river is now clean enough in principle to support otters , but none were found in
288-535: The river at Mossley ), marks the meeting point of the traditional boundaries of Lancashire , Yorkshire and Cheshire . The section through Stalybridge was once mooted as a diversion route for the restoration of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal although the canal was later de-culverted along a different route. At the end of its course, the confluence with the River Goyt forms the River Mersey at Stockport . The 19th-century industrial concentrations in
306-560: Was also the sewage effluent from the surrounding population. Up to two-thirds of the river's flow at its confluence with the Goyt had passed through a sewage works. The anti-pollution efforts of the last thirty years of the 20th century have resulted in the positive fauna distributions listed below. The Centre for Ecology and Hydrology measures the flow at two points for the National River Flow Archive, at Portwood weir (Stockport) and at Broomstairs weir (Denton). Portwood weir
324-581: Was moved when Errwood reservoir was built in the 1960s (see photo below). Further downstream there is another reservoir , the Fernilee Reservoir , built in 1938. The original line of the Cromford and High Peak Railway can be seen near this point. The Goyt then passes through Taxal and Horwich End where it is joined by the Todd Brook . Thereafter it passes through Whaley Bridge , New Mills (where it
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