At 10:53 28/05/2012, you wrote:
>Rivers and their estuaries aren't necessarily named the same.
>Sometimes the source of a name is a small stream that joins at that point.
Yes, I thought of Bede's monastery at Jarrow, which is on a peninsula
formed by the Tyne and a tributary whose name I forget. But if there
a tributary one at South Shields it can't have been very big.
Trevor
Trevor Ogden
Abingdon, Oxfordshire
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