What’s your favourite river? The reason I ask is that the Our Rivers Campaign (which includes the RSPB alongside WWF-UK, The Angling Trust and Salmon and Trout Association) is looking for nominations for both the best and worst rivers in the UK.
Here’s the link to the site and here’s some coverage of the story. The period for nominations runs until 31 October 2010.
It got me thinking – about rivery landscapes that I’ve enjoyed, the Hodder running down from the Forest of Bowland and feeding the Ribble or the Wharfe rushing down from the Yorkshire dales and framing some of the best of Yorkshire’s scenery. But in the end I’d settle for the river Stour in Kent (actually the Great Stour) – it was the river of my first kingfisher after all. It’s probably also a candidate for the worst river as the demands of urban development place a heavy load of water demand and pollution of a small chalk stream.