The River Lyde is a
river
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of w ...
in
Buckinghamshire and tributary of the
River Thame
The River Thame is a river in Southern England. A tributary of the River Thames, the river runs generally south-westward for about from its source above the Buckinghamshire town of Aylesbury to the Thames in south-east Oxfordshire.
Course
...
. It rises at
springs in
Bledlow
Bledlow is a village in the civil parish of Bledlow-cum-Saunderton in Buckinghamshire, England. It is about WSW of Princes Risborough, and is on the county boundary with Oxfordshire.
The toponym "Bledlow" is derived from Old English and m ...
(which takes its name from the river) then flows due north west to join the
Cuttle Brook about a mile east of
Towersey in
Oxfordshire. It then goes to the north of
Thame
Thame is a market town and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about east of the city of Oxford and southwest of Aylesbury. It derives its name from the River Thame which flows along the north side of the town and forms part of the county border wi ...
to join the River Thame.
It gives its name to the Lyde Garden, on the Carrington Estate, at Bledlow.
References
Royal Horticultural Society description of the river through gardens in BledlowImage of the Lyde in 1900 care of English Heritage
External links
Rivers of Buckinghamshire
Rivers of Oxfordshire
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