River North Esk

The North Esk is a river in the Scottish Unitary Authority's Angus and Aberdeenshire.

The river is formed by the confluence of the streams Water of Lee and Water of Mark at an altitude of 250 m in the sparsely populated, rural areas of the Grampians about two kilometers east of Loch Lee. In the first twelve kilometers of the North Esk flows eastwards and then turns to the southeast from. The North Esk finally ends about two kilometers north of Montrose in the North Sea. It places a distance of 47 km. From a point about four kilometers north of Edzell to its mouth of the North Esk forms the border between the regions of Angus and Aberdeenshire or historic areas Forfarshire and Kincardineshire. About five kilometers south of the mouth of the South Esk is

Westwater, one of the main tributaries of the North Esk