Oxford - The Cherwell - postcard by Penrose & Palmer - postcard c.1930s

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• Picture / Image:  The Cherwell, Oxford
• Publisher:  Penrose and Palmer, Oxford  / printed by The Vandryck Printers, Bristol
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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The River Cherwell (ⁱ/ˈtʃɑːrwɛl/ char-well, particularly near Oxford, or /ˈtʃɜːrwɛl/ chur-well, particularly in north Oxfordshire)^[1][2] is a major tributary of the River Thames in central England. It rises near Hellidon in Northamptonshire and flows south through Oxfordshire for 40 miles (64 km) to meet the Thames at Oxford. It adds a significant discharge to the Thames—when entering Oxford, the Thames's discharge is 17.6 m³/s (622 cu ft/s), but after leaving and consuming the Cherwell it has increased to 24.8 m³/s (876 cu ft/s). The river gives its name to the Cherwell local government district and Cherwell, an Oxford student newspaper.

The Cherwell is the northernmost tributary of the Thames. It rises in the ironstone hills at Hellidon, two miles (3 km) west of Charwelton near Daventry. Helidon Hill immediately north of the source forms a watershed: on the south side, the Cherwell feeds the River Thames and thence the North Sea at the Thames Estuary; on the north side, the River Leam feeds the Warwickshire River Avon and the River Severn and thence the Bristol Channel. (A third river system on this watershed rises east of Charwelton and feeds tributary streams of the River Nene and thence the North Sea at The Wash, while the source of the River Great Ouse is also nearby.)

South of Charwelton, the River Cherwell passes between the villages of Hinton and Woodford Halse.

Two miles further on, the River Cherwell swings westward for a few miles, passing below the village of Chipping Warden through Edgcote, site of a Romano-British villa. The river passes from Northamptonshire into Oxfordshire at Hay's Bridge on the A361 Daventry to Banbury road.

In total the river drains an area of 943 square kilometres (364 sq mi