10 Repeated River Names in the UK

1. River Avon

• River Avon, Bristol, running from Acton Turville to Avonmouth
• River Avon, Devon, running from Ryder's Hill to Bigbury (aka River Aune)
• River Avon, Hampshire, running from Pewsey to Christchurch (aka Salisbury Avon)
• River Avon, Warwickshire, running from Naseby to Tewkesbury (aka Shakespeare's Avon)

2. River Ouse

• River Great Ouse, Northamptonshire and East Anglia
• River Ouse, a river in North Yorkshire. Hydrologically it is a continuation of the River Ure
• River Ouse, Sussex, rises near Lower Beeding and runs eastwards

3. River Dee

• River Dee, Aberdeenshire (Uisge Dhè), Scotland, flowing from the Cairngorms to Aberdeen
• River Dee, Wales (Afon Dyfrdwy), flowing through N Wales and Cheshire
• River Dee, Cumbria, flowing from the border between Cumbria and N Yorkshire through Dentdale to the River Rawthey
• River Dee, Galloway, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

4. River Don

• River Don, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Deathan)
• River Don, Tyne and Wear, England
• River Don, South Yorkshire, England
• River Don, Lancashire, England

5. River Derwent

• River Derwent, Derbyshire
• River Derwent, N E England on the border between County Durham and Northumberland
• River Derwent, Cumbria
• River Derwent, Yorkshire

6. River Tweed

• River Tweed, on the historic boundary between Scotland and England
• River Tweed, Leicestershire

7. River Taff/Afon Taf

• River Taf (Welsh: Afon Taf), W Wales
• River Taff (Welsh: Afon Taf), S Wales. It rises as two rivers in the Brecon Beacons

8. River Trent

• River Trent, English Midlands
• River Piddle or Trent or North River, a small rural Dorset river which rises next to Alton Pancras church

9. River Tyne

• River Tyne, N E England
• River Tyne, Scotland. It rises in the Moorfoot Hills, Midlothian near Tynehead, south of Edinburgh

10. River Eden

• River Eden, W Kent, a tributary of the River Medway
• River Eden, Cumbria. It flows through the Eden District on its way to the Solway Firth
• River Eden, Fife, Scotland (one of Fife's two principal rivers)