Lemington Gut (Newcastle upon Tyne)

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Formerly the main channel of the Tyne which took a sharp bend around Blaydon Haugh, it was cut across by the Tyne Improvement Commission in about 1880 to straighten the river and shorten it by three quarters of a mile giving deeper water at Blaydon and leaving the Gut as a backwater.
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemington_Gut
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Coordinates:  54°58'24"N 1°42'27"W
This article was last modified 10 years ago