River Frome (Dorset)

The River Frome at Frampton

The River Frome is a river in the English county of Dorset.

River Frome is the name of several rivers in south-west England. The name comes from the Old English and in German means as much as " active " or "good".

The river rises in the village of Evershot, bordered whose inhabitants, the source close to the St Osmund Church in the year 2000. The river first flows in a southerly direction. At the village of Maiden Newton Hooke River empties into the Frome. The Frome then flows through Dorchester, where he changed his direction towards the east. The Frome runs along the southern edge of Wareham. On the eastern edge of the Wareham River Piddle opens into the estuary of the Frome. The area where the two rivers is known as the Wareham Channel and is part of Poole Harbour, has arisen among others by the erosions of Frome.