As the area was developed during the industrial revolution, the river was culverted in places, and left in open but confined channels in others. The channel is deep enough to cope with storm flows [[2724699]] and has a smaller channel in the invert for dry weather flow.
Uploaded to Geograph by Stephen Craven on 23 January 2016
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