Eden Ituna (Roman name) | |
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Etymology | Celtic water or rushing |
Location | |
Country | United Kingdom |
Constituent country | England |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | Black Fell Moss, Mallerstang |
• coordinates | 54°23′37″N 2°18′05″W / 54.3936°N 2.3014°W |
• elevation | 670 m (2,200 ft) |
Mouth | Solway Firth |
• location | Bowness-on-Solway |
• coordinates | 54°57′20″N 3°19′31″W / 54.9556°N 3.3252°W |
• elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
Length | 145 km (90 mi) |
Discharge | |
• location | Sheepmount, Carlisle |
• average | 51.82 m3/s (1,830 cu ft/s) |
• maximum | 1,700 m3/s (60,000 cu ft/s)maximum discharge in Dec 2015 |
Discharge | |
• location | Temple Sowerby |
• average | 14.44 m3/s (510 cu ft/s) |
Basin features | |
Tributaries | |
• left | Caldew, Petteril, Eamont |
• right | Irthing |
The River Eden is a river that flows through Cumbria, England. It rises on Black Fell Moss, near the village of Outhgill, and runs in a generally north-westerly direction through the Vale of Eden and Solway Plain before reaching the sea at the Solway Firth.