River Calder, Wyre

River Calder
River Calder
	The River Calder, near its source
Physical characteristics
Source	Fiendsdale Head
• location	Forest of Bowland, Lancashire
• coordinates	53°55′50.6″N 2°38′14.4″W / 53.930722°N 2.637333°W
• elevation	1,440 feet (440 m)
Mouth	Barnacre-with-Bonds
• location	Catterall
• coordinates	53°52′55.1″N 2°46′28.8″W / 53.881972°N 2.774667°W
• elevation	43 feet (13 m)
Length	13 mi (21 km)
Basin size	28 km2 (11 sq mi)

River Calder, Wyre

Legend

					Source
					North Grain
					East Grain
					Calder Dyke

					Oakenclough Mill

					Nanny Brook


					Mill
					Sandholme Bridge
					Sandholme Mill
					M6 Motorway
					West Coast Main Line
					Canal feeder
					Lancaster Canal
					B6430 Garstang Road
					River Wyre
					River Wyre

The River Calder is a 13-mile (21 km) long river that is one of the main tributaries of the River Wyre in Lancashire, England.^[1] Like the other rivers in England with the name Calder, its name is thought to derive from a mixture of Old Welsh and Old British words meaning "hard and violent water or stream".^[2]

^ "Calder (Wyre)". environment.data.gov.uk. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
^ Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 82. ISBN 0-19-869103-3.

[1] "Calder (Wyre)". environment.data.gov.uk. Retrieved 15 September 2017.

[2] Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 82. ISBN 0-19-869103-3.

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River Calder, Wyre

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