River Chater
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| Location | |
| Country | England |
| Counties | Rutland, Leicestershire |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mouth | River Welland |
• location | Tinwell, Rutland |
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| Basin features | |
| River system | River Welland |
| Tributaries | |
| • right | Morcott Brook |
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The River Chater is a river in the East Midlands of England. It is a tributary of the River Welland, and is about 22 miles (35 km) long.[1][2]
Course
It rises near Whatborough Hill in Leicestershire, and then flows east, past Sauvey Castle and Launde Abbey, before crossing into Rutland.[3] Chater Valley is a 3.8-hectare (9.4-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Loddington, Leicestershire.[4][5] The river continues east, to the north of Ridlington, Preston, and then to the south of Manton and the north of Wing. North-east of South Luffenham, it is joined by the Morcott Brook. It continues north-east, going under the A6121 road at Foster's Bridge and through Ketton, before meeting the River Welland near Tinwell.[6]
The river drains an area of 19 square miles (49 km2) that is mostly clay, but with limestone and sandstone in certain areas. The catchment is rural, with mixed farming and woodland in its lower reaches.[7][8][9] Originally, the project for the massive reservoir of Rutland Water considered damming the valley of the Chater, but the underlying geology was not conducive for this. Additionally, the available land space would have made the reservoir smaller than the eventual site of Rutland Water.[10]
Wildlife
The river holds a variety of fish species, including roach, dace and chub. White-clawed crayfish are known to be in the river, which puts them at risk, as invasive species of crayfish are known to be in the Welland.[11]
History
Mills used the river to power waterwheels, usually for grinding corn. The last watermill operating on the river was at South Luffenham in 1948, when the leat was damaged and never repaired.[12]
Etymology
Chater is a pre-English river name of uncertain etymology. Eilert Ekwall suggests it derives from Brittonic ceto-dubron meaning forest stream.[13]
Ketton, a village that the river flows past, takes its name from the Chater.[14]
References
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- ^ Wheeler and Batty (1896), p.291
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.High Leicestershire. Natural England Character Area Profiles. 2013. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-78367-057-4.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ovens, Robert; Sleath, Sheila (2008). "14; Rutland Waters". The Heritage of Rutland Water. Oakham: Rutland Local History & Record Society. p. 316. ISBN 0907464394.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Designated Sites View: Chater Valley". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Map of Chater Valley". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."234" (Map). Rutland Water. 1:25,000. Explorer. Ordnance Survey. 2015. ISBN 9780319244272.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Chater - Upper". environment.data.gov.uk. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Chater - Lower". environment.data.gov.uk. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."31010 - Chater at Fosters Bridge". nrfa.ceh.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Harper, David M; Bullock, John A, eds. (1982). Rutland Water -- Decade of Change : Proceedings of the Conference held in Leicester, U.K., 1-3 April 1981. London: Springer Netherlands. p. 9. ISBN 978-94-009-8008-2.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Johnson, Simon (November 2006). "Rivers Chater & Welland, Rutland" (PDF). wildtrout.org. p. 3. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Palmer, Marilyn; Neaverson, Peter (1994). "2: Providing the necessities of life". Industry in the Landscape. London: Routledge. p. 25. ISBN 0-415-11206-0.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cox, Barrie (1994). The Place-Names of Rutland. English Place-Name Society. p. 1. ISBN 0904889173.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ekwall, Eilert (1947). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names (3 ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 93, 261. OCLC 12542596.
Bibliography
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- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.William Henry Wheeler; Leonard Charles Batty (1896). A History of the Fens of South Lincolnshire. British Library Historical Print Collections. ISBN 978-1-241-32839-9.
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