River Trent runs uphill ?


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What we now call the Trent has changed course a few times. Up to 2 ice ages ago it ran west to east from the Welsh mountains to the Stoke on Trent area, then along the Vale of Belvoir, through the Ancaster Gap and on via the Sleaford area towards the sea. Ice floes blocked that exit at the end of the last-but-one ice age and diverted the eastern flow via Lincoln, the route of the current River Witham. Only after the last ice age did the Trent flow north to the Humber. The flow from the Welsh mountains must have got blocked at some point too, as no rivers currently flow from Wales into the Trent.

 

Interestingly, the River Witham currently flows east-west along the Vale of Belvoir where the Trent once ran west-east. Amazing things happen! 

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It is believed that the name is formed from two Celtic words – ʻtrosʼ (over) and ʻhyntʼ (way) producing ʻtroshyntʼ (over-way). Because of the riverʼs tendency to flood and alter its course, this has been interpreted as meaning ʻstrong floodingʼ or more directly ʻthe
trespasserʼ.

Another possible meaning is ʻa river that is easily fordedʼ. The name ʻTrisantona Fu (Trisantona River) for the Trent first appears in ʻThe Annalsʼ, the work of the Roman historian Tacitus. Researchers at the University of Wales suggest the name is derived from the Romano-British, (again Celtic) — ʻTrisantanoʼ – trisent (o)-on-ʻa – (through-path) — which has been given the enigmatic interpretation of ʻgreat feminine thoroughfareʼ. 

 

https://nottinghamhiddenhistoryteam.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/spotlight-on-the-river-trent/

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