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River Wharfe

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Length105 km
Source elevation 305
Mouth River Ouse
Country United Kingdom
SourcesOughtershaw Beck
Green Field Beck
Cities Ilkley
Otley
Grassington
Burnsall
Wetherby
Kettlewell
Buckden
Appletreewick
Collingham
Hubberholme
Ulleskelf
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About River Wharfe


The River Wharfe is a river in Yorkshire, England. For much of its length it is the county boundary between West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire. Its valley is known as Wharfedale.

Campaigners slam government river bathing decision

Campaigners slam government river bathing decision
Mar 10,2023 3:00 pm

... The vast majority of them are coastal with just two, in Yorkshire on the River Wharfe and Oxfordshire, on the Thames on rivers...

Rare ice pancakes form on River Wharfe in Yorkshire

Rare ice pancakes form on River Wharfe in Yorkshire
Dec 15,2022 1:51 pm

... The phenomenon, which is caused when foam floating on the top of a river freezes, was spotted on the River Wharfe near Bolton Priory on Wednesday...

Ilkley: A tour of the Sunday Times' best place to live winner

Ilkley: A tour of the Sunday Times' best place to live winner
Apr 9,2022 11:40 am

... " Clean-up campaignLocals have mounted a campaign over the last few years to clean up the River Wharfe, which was recently given a " poor" bathing water status by the Environment Agency...

Segway: the end of the road for the much-hyped two-Wheeler

Segway: the end of the road for the much-hyped two-Wheeler
Jun 24,2020 12:55 pm

... Jimi Heselden crashed into the River Wharfe while using his Segway on his estate in West Yorkshire, only 10 months after the purchase of the company in the year 2009...

Yorkshire Dales hit by floods after heavy rains

Yorkshire Dales hit by floods after heavy rains
Feb 22,2020 3:40 pm

... The Environment Agency said: most of the action on Friday night and Saturday morning on the River Wharfe and river Ure, but the run-off from the Dales was hardly to be said to impact on downstream areas, North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, that about 10 properties had flooded in, and the village in the vicinity of Giggleswick was also affected...

Headlines: Harry's 'sadness' and 'Duke and Duchess of Netflix'

Headlines: Harry's 'sadness' and 'Duke and Duchess of Netflix'
Feb 16,2020 10:16 am

... The River Wharfe attracted thousands of people to bathe, while in the last summer of the heat wave, but the people in the vicinity have said, the paper that found levels of bacteria in the water, which regularly reach dangerous levels, because of problems with a nearby wastewater treatment plant...

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