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River Forth
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river in Scotland, flows into the Firth of Forth
Key facts
- Country
- Scotland
- Councils
- Stirling
- City
- Stirling
- Source
- Confluence of Duchray Water and the Avondhu River below Loch Ard
- Coordinates
- 56°10′52″N 4°24′30″W / 56.1810°N 4.4084°W / 56.1810; -4.4084
- Elevation
- 33 m (108 ft)
- Mouth
- Firth of Forth , North Sea
- Location
- UK
- Length
- 47 km (29 mi)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Official name
- River Forth
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Clackmannanshire
- Image
- River Forth near Stirling.jpg
- Length
- 47
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- native label
- Uisge For
- tributary
- River Devon
- Commons category
- River Forth
- mouth of the watercourse
- Firth of Forth
- historic county
- Perthshire
- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- different from
- Forth
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
The River Forth is a major river in central Scotland, 47 km (29 mi) long, which drains into the North Sea on the east coast of the country. Its drainage basin covers much of Stirlingshire in Scotland's Central Belt. The Gaelic name for the upper reach of the river, above Stirling, is Abhainn Dubh, meaning "black river". The name for the river below the tidal reach (just past where it is crossed by the M9 motorway) is Uisge For.
Name
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “River Forth” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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