River Leen
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River Leen |
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 River Leen near Radford
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| Country | United Kingdom |
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| Country within the UK | England |
| Counties | Nottinghamshire |
| Towns | Bulwell, Basford, Radford, Lenton |
| Tributaries | |
| - left | Day Brook |
| City | Nottingham |
| Source | |
| - location | Robin Hood Hills, Annesley, Nottinghamshire |
| - coordinates | 53°05′10″N 1°13′07″W / 53.0861°N 1.2187°W |
| Mouth | |
| - location | Confluence with the River Trent, The Meadows, Nottingham |
| - coordinates | 52°56′14″N 1°09′31″W / 52.9371°N 1.1585°WCoordinates: 52°56′14″N 1°09′31″W / 52.9371°N 1.1585°W |
| Length | 24 km (15 mi) |
| Basin | 124 km2 (48 sq mi) |
| Discharge | for Triumph Road, Lenton |
| - average | 0.67 m3/s (24 cu ft/s) |
 Confluence with the River Trent shown in Nottinghamshire
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The River Leen is 15 mile (24km) long tributary of the River Trent that flows through Nottinghamshire, and the city of Nottingham in the East Midlands of England.
The Leen rises as a series of springs at the foot of the Robin Hood Hills just outside Annesley. It then flows through the grounds and lakes of Newstead Abbey, passing Papplewick and on through Bestwood Country Park, following the route of the Leen Valley into suburban and urban Nottingham. Within the city it flows through the centre of Bulwell, and passes Basford where it is joined by the Day Brook. The Leen then flows through Radford, and Lenton before joining the River Trent next to Riverside Way in The Meadows.
The name Leen developed through various renderings of the Celtic word meaning "lake" or "pool" (Llyn in modern Welsh). Some of the surrounding villages derived their name from the River Leen. Lenton, ton being the Saxon word for "village"; and Linby, by being the Danish equivalent of ton.
From Lenton onwards the course of the Leen has been quite radically altered on a number of occasions, notably culverted by the Borough Engineer, Marriott Ogle Tarbotton, but the river's present course is believed to follow much the same route as it did originally. Originally it discharged into the Beeston Canal, flowed some distance along the canal and thence over a small weir into the Tinker’s Leen (where the modern Courts complex is now situated) and so into the Trent just downstream of Trent Bridge.
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