River Tyne

The pedestrian and cyclist bridge Gateshead Millennium Bridge and Tyne Bridge for motorized vehicles in Newcastle upon Tyne

The Tyne Bridge between Newcastle and Gateshead

The River Tyne is a river in England. It is formed by the confluence of two other rivers, the North Tyne and the South Tyne. These two rivers meet at a " Waters Meet" together referred site at Warden Rock at Hexham in Northumberland.

River

The North Tyne rises on the Scottish border, from where it flows through the Kielder Water reservoir, without crossing a major subsidiary to Hexham.

The South Tyne has its source in Alston Moor, Cumbria, and flows through the towns of Haltwhistle and Haydon Bridge in a valley often referred Tyne Gap. Hadrian's Wall is located north of the Tyne Gap. Coincidentally, lies the source of the South Tyne near the sources of two other great rivers of the industrial Northeast, namely of tea and Wear.

After the confluence of the Tyne from Hexham in Northumberland Corbridge flows through. Between Clara Vale ( south shore ) and the Tyne Riverside Country Park ( North Shore ), he crosses the line into county of Tyne and Wear, from where he Newcastle upon Tyne and the city of Gateshead separated on 21 kilometers in length, on which he is spanned by ten bridges. To the east of Gateshead and Newcastle the river Hebburn and Jarrow on the south bank of Wallsend and North Shields separates. Jarrow and North Shields are connected under the river through the Tyne Tunnel. Finally, flows the River Tyne between South Shields and Tynemouth in the North Sea. In the section on which he crosses the Tyneside conurbation, the river marks the historic border between County Durham to the south and Northumberland.

The Tyne was with its shoals and easily accessible coal deposits an important route for the export of coal from the 13th century until the decline of the coalfields of North East England in the second half of the 20th century; was shipped the goods in Dunston and the Tyne docks. In Dunston in Gateshead wooden Kohleverladekais ( staithes ) were preserved from 1890, although they were partially damaged by fire.

The lower areas of the Tyne were in the late 19th and early 20th centuries one of the main shipbuilding centers of the world. In Wallsend and Hebburn there are still important shipyards.

To support the shipbuilding and export industries of Tyneside, the downstream sections were redesigned in detail in the second half of the 19th century, with islands removed and meanders were straightened in the river.

There is a charity organization in order to enhance the waters of the Tyne and the surrounding areas, and protect. The Tyne Rivers Trust, founded in 2004, is a community-based organization that works to a) improve the habitat b ) emerge a better understanding of the Tyne area c ) develop a reputation as a place of Tynegebiets ecological quality.

Origins

About the origin of the name " Tyne " little concrete is known. The name first appears in the Anglo- Saxon period: Tynemouth is on Anglo-Saxon reproduced as Tinanmuðe (probably in the dative ). There is a theory that TiN may have meant in a local Celtic language or a pre-Celtic language "river".

The Vedra on the Geographike Hyphegesis could be the Tyne or the Wear. Thomas John Taylor suggested that the main course of the river could be earlier flowed through what is today the Valley. There is evidence that the wear could be followed before the last ice age, today's route of the River Team and flowed together in Dunston with the Tyne. Ice would have changed the course of wear to its present form towards the east leads him (practically parallel to the barrel of the Tyne ) from Washington to the North Sea estuary at Sunderland.

Trivia

The singer Jimmy Nail has the river with his song " Big River " (1995) set a musical monument.