A dale is a valley , especially an open, gently-sloping ground between low hills with a stream flowing through it. It is used most frequently in the North of England and the Southern Uplands of Scotland ; the term " fell " commonly refers to mountains or hills that flank a dale. As with many other words, dale was preserved by Viking influence in Northern England .
11-576: River Eden may refer to: United Kingdom [ edit ] England [ edit ] River Eden, Cumbria River Eden, Kent Scotland [ edit ] River Eden, Fife Eden Water , a tributary of the River Tweed Wales [ edit ] Afon Eden , Gwynedd Elsewhere [ edit ] Eden River (Dominica) See also [ edit ] Eden Valley (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
22-608: A Special Area of Conservation under the European Union's Habitats Directive . The area protected by the SAC includes Ullswater . Dale (origin) It appears in various contexts, such as up hill and down dale "over every hill and dale", and "up all hills, down all dales . The word dale comes from the Old English word dæl , from which the word " dell " also derived. It is related to Old Norse word dalr (and
33-525: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages River Eden, Cumbria The River Eden is a river that flows through Cumbria , England. It rises on Black Fell Moss, near the village of Outhgill , and runs in a generally north-westerly direction through the Vale of Eden and Solway Plain before reaching the sea at the Solway Firth . The river
44-671: Is the highest waterfall along its journey to the sea). The steep-sided dale of Mallerstang later opens out to become the Vale of Eden . The river flows through Kirkby Stephen and Appleby-in-Westmorland , and receives the water of many becks flowing off the Pennines to the east, and longer rivers from the Lake District off to the west, including the River Lyvennet , River Leith and River Eamont , which arrives via Ullswater and Penrith . Continuing north, it formed
55-821: The River Petteril and River Caldew from the south, as it winds through Carlisle . Its junction with the River Caldew in north Carlisle marks the point where Hadrian's Wall crosses the Eden, only five miles before both reach their end at the tidal flats. It enters the Solway Firth near the mouth of the River Esk after a total distance of approximately 81 miles (130 km). The river supports Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar ) and Eurasian otter ( Lutra lutra ). The river and its tributaries are designated
66-569: The boundary between the counties of Cumbria and North Yorkshire ; the river gave its name to the former Eden district of Cumbria. Two other rivers arise in the same peat bogs here, within a kilometre of each other: the River Swale and River Ure . It starts life as Red Gill Beck , then becomes Hell Gill Beck, before turning north and joining with Ais Gill Beck to become the River Eden. (Hell Gill Force, just before it meets Ais Gill Beck,
77-540: The eastern boundary of Inglewood Forest . It passes close to the ancient stone circle known as Long Meg and Her Daughters and through the sparsely populated beef and dairy farming regions of the vale of Cumbria on the Solway Plain . After flowing through Wetheral , where it is crossed by Corby Bridge , a Grade I listed railway viaduct of 1834, it merges with the River Irthing from the east, followed by
88-495: The modern Icelandic word dalur , etc.), which may have influenced its survival in northern England. The Germanic origin is assumed to be * dala- . Dal- in various combinations is common in placenames in Norway. Modern English valley and French vallée are claimed to be related to dale. A distant relative of dale is currency unit dollar , stemming from German thaler or daler , short for joachimsthaler coins manufactured in
99-428: 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 the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=River_Eden&oldid=1133773571 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
110-553: The town of Joachimsthal in Bohemia. The word is perhaps related to Welsh dol (meadow, pasture, valley), Russian dol (valley, reverse side) and Serbian/Croatian/Bulgarian/Russian dolina (basin, doline is a geological term for certain surface depressions in karst areas). The uses are semantic equivalents to many words and phrases, suggesting a common Indo-European affinity. Vale and thalweg are also related. The following are several examples of major dales that have
121-690: Was known to the Romans as the Itouna , as recorded by the Greek geographer Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy) in the 2nd century AD. This name derives from the Celtic word ituna , meaning water , or rushing . Thus there is no relation to the biblical Garden of Eden . The Eden rises in Black Fell Moss , Mallerstang , on the high ground between High Seat, Yorkshire Dales and Hugh Seat . Here it forms
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