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About the River Trent:

Fact file on the River Trent

The History of the Trent

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Fact file on the River Trent

274 km

long from Biddulph Moor to the Humber Estuary

250m

height of the source of the Trent above sea level

191km

of freshwater non-tidal river to Newark

10 440km2

the total catchment area of River Trent

720mm

is the average annual rainfall across the Trent catchment

83km

of tidal river

42

main tributaries

81

bridges

11

locks, 6 over 49 meters long

107km

of navigation

6

number of wetland SSSI’s on the Trent

31

species of fish

5.2m

the tidal range at Trent Falls

6 million

the number of people living in the Trent catchment

1/3

of the total fall in height of the Trent occurs in its first 3km