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River Tees
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:''TEES is also an acronym for the
Texas Engineering Experiment Station''
The '''Tees''' is an
England English river which
source (river) rises on the eastward slope of
Cross Fell in the
Pennines Pennine Chain and flows eastwards for about 85 miles (137 km) before emptying into the
North Sea between
Hartlepool and
Redcar.
In the earliest part of its course it forms the boundary between the traditional
county counties of
Westmorland and
County Durham Durham. The head of the valley, of which the upper portion is known as
Teesdale, has a desolate grandeur; the hills, exceeding 2500 feet (760 m) in height at some points, consisting of bleak moorland.
Image:HighForce1.jpg thumb|265px|High Force on the River Tees
A succession of falls or rapids, where the river traverses a hard series of black
basaltic rocks, bears the name of "
Cauldron Snout"; and from a point immediately below this to its mouth the Tees forms the boundary between Durham and
Yorkshire almost without a break. The dale becomes bolder below Cauldron Snout, and trees appear, contrasting with the broken rocks where the water dashes over
High Force, the highest
waterfall in
England and one of the finest.
Before joining the North Sea the river tees rises 760 metres above sea level at Redcar
The busiest port in the country is Teesport. It used to ship over a million tones of cargo per year.
The scenery becomes gentler but more picturesque as the river descends past
Middleton-in-Teesdale (Durham). This locality has
lead and
ironstone resources. The ancient
town of
Barnard Castle,
Eggleston Abbey, and
Rokeby Hall, well known through Sir
Walter Scott's poem, are passed; and then the valley begins to open out, and the river traverses in sweeping curves the rich plain east and south of
Darlington.
The course of the valley until here has been generally east-southeast, but it now turns northeast and, nearing the sea, becomes an important commercial waterway, having on its banks the ports of
Stockton-on-Tees,
Thornaby-on-Tees and
Middlesbrough. For the last five miles the course, below Middlesbrough, is
estuary estuarine.
The Tees drains an area of 708 square miles (1834 km�), and subsumes no important
tributary tributaries.
The river was featured on the television programme ''
Seven Natural Wonders'' as one of the wonders of the North.
See also
*
Rivers of the United Kingdom
{{1911}}
Category:Rivers in County Durham Tees
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