The River Stour is an
English river that rises in the county of
Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the north west of South East England. It is a mainly rural county, with its largest settlement being the city of Oxford. The county is a centre of research and development, primarily ...
but largely flows through
Warwickshire. It is a
tributary of the
Avon
Avon may refer to:
* River Avon (disambiguation), several rivers
Organisations
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*Avon Coachworks, a car body builder established in 1919 at Warwick, England, relaunched in 1922, following ...
, which it joins just south west of
Stratford-upon-Avon
Stratford-upon-Avon (), commonly known as just Stratford, is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It is situated on the River Avon, north-we ...
.
The source of the River Stour is a spring near Highways Farm, just south of
Swalcliffe
Swalcliffe is a village and civil parish about west of Banbury in Oxfordshire. The parish is about long north–south and about east–west. The 2011 Census recorded the population of the modern Swalcliffe parish as 210. The toponym "Swalc ...
. Some to the west, it crosses the Oxfordshire/Warwickshire border near
Traitor's Ford. The first settlement that the river flows through is the village of
Stourton. The River Stour then turns to the north and passes through the town of
Shipston-on-Stour. The
A3400 road roughly follows the course of the river to Stratford-upon-Avon, through the villages of
Tredington Halford,
Alderminster,
Newbold-on-Stour,
Atherstone-on-Stour and
Clifford Chambers.
See also
*
Rivers of the United Kingdom
External links
*
Stour
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