1 I THE FLDTU OK WARWICKSHIRE. 



romantic grounds of Guy's Cliff , to which it lends a great enchantment. 

 A. little further on at I. e ii receives its important tributary the 



Learn, and passing close to the walls of Warwick's stately pile runs 

 through Warwick Park. En this park is a pool which is fed by a 

 oonfluenoeof Btreams draining the west side of the high land around 

 rton and the parish of Tachbrook. This pool appears to drain 

 Avon on it-- left bank. Prom Warwick Park the Avon flows 

 Barford bo Bherbourne, where it receives the drainage of Norton 

 :>, and the oountry around Sherbourne. A little further on, 

 Dear Hampton Lucy, it receives on its left bank Thelesford Brook, 

 a small stream draining Lighthorne, Newbold Pacey, and Wasperton 

 Hill. In iLs course through Charlecote Park it receives the small 

 River Dene, a Btream of no magnitude, having two sources, the Burton 

 ■ Hills and the Edge Hills, and draining much of the surround- 

 ing country, as Burton Dassett, Kineton, Butlers Marston, Pillerton, 

 Combrook, and Wellesbourne Hastings. On leaving Charlecote the 

 Avon flows through Alveston bo S tratf or d-on- A von, passing olese by 

 bhe church on the north-east side. Below Stratfoi-d the Avon is 

 navigable for barges of forty tons burden through bhe remainder of its 

 course. 



A little below Stratford, it receives on its left bank the River 



Stour, and, passing Binton Bridges and Bidford, receives on its right 



bank the River Arrow, neai Salford Priors. Near this village it also 



bl] Btreams draining Bevingbon and Salford, and about 



a mile farther on leaves the county. Its whole course through the 



county is about fifty seven miles. After leaving Warwickshire, the Avon 



into Worcestershire, through Evesham and Perahore, and 



i near Tewkesbury. Its whole course is ninety-eight 



miles. 



The Swift, a small river rising beyond Lutterworth, in Leicestershire, 

 enters Warwickshire north of Church Over, and, passing through 

 Cosford and Browns Over, enters the right bank of the Avon near 

 Rugby Mill. It has a Bhort but rapid course. 



The Sow rises on the high land mar Astley, and flowing near 



J district around Bedworth, through Exhall, Foleshill, Sow, 



Binley, and near Whitley M>bey, enters the Avon in Stoneleigh Park. 



' »n its right hank Btreams draining Fillongley and Whit- 



namely, n I Mill the small River Sherbourne, a 



stream rising In bhe high land aboul < 'orley, and receiving in its courso 



i Eastern Green; near Pinham the Sow 



□ draining the oountry around Kenilworth. On its 



left hank i' .us draining Anstey, Sow 



an 1 tin- high laud about Brinklow and Coombe Abbey. Its 



whole course is about twenty miles. 



(To he continued. , 



