Coordinates: 51°05′31″N 1°10′37″W / 51.092°N 1.177°W
The River Alre (also, occasionally, Arle[1]) is a river in the English county of Hampshire. It is a tributary of the River Itchen, which it joins just downstream of the town of New Alresford. Previously the Itchen itself was referred to as the River Alre.[2][3] Daniel Defoe mentions the river in his book A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain.[4]
The river is a classic English chalk stream with shallow gravel bottom and fast flowing waters fed year round by chalk springs.
References
- ^ "About Alresford". Retrieved 22 April 2013.
- ^ Knight, Charles (1867). Geography: The English Cyclopaedia, Volume IV. London: Bradbury, Evans. p. 631.
- ^ Camden, William (1586). Britannia.
- ^ Defoe, Daniel (1724–1727). A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain.