Locks in any canal serve to raise or lower a ship to the level of the water in the next segment of the canal so it may continue through. They are used when an elevation change is too severe for a natural navigable waterway to exist.
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As you do not qualify your question the 5 longest are - 1 River Severn 220 miles long 2 River Thames 215 3 River Trent 185 4 River Great Ouse 143 5 River Wye 135
Locks in any canal serve to raise or lower a ship to the level of the water in the next segment of the canal so it may continue through. They are used when an elevation change is too severe for a natural navigable waterway to exist.
There are hundreds of rivers in England. Severn, Thames, Trent, Mersey, Avon and Tyne are a few of them.
There are many rivers that run through Britain :- The Thames The Severn The Trent The Hamble The Dee etc.etc.
Severn, Thames, Trent, Mersey, Avon, Tyne, Ribble.
There are many rivers in the UK, here are just a few of the larger ones, The River Severn, The Thames, The Mersey, The Tyne, The Clyde, The Trent.
Locks on canals are used as a means of effectively going up or down hill. Water will always find its own level, therefore letting water flow into a system of locks allows gradients to be navigated by the vessels using the waterway. The number of locks will depend on how flat or otherwise the land needed to be passed through!
There are 22 major rivers, but it would be near enough impossible to count all of the rivers in the whole of the UK, there would probably just be too many...
There are hundreds of rivers in England - far too many to list here. The main ones are Severn, Thames, Trent, Mersey, Humber, Wear, Tyne, Avon, Medway, Ribble.
I suppose it's the Thames, becase it flows through the Capital, London. But the Severn is the longest in England & Wales & the Tay is in Scotland. The longest in the British Isles is the Shannon, wholly in the Republic of ireland.
Many rivers flow through England. the question cannot be answered without more information. Some of the main rivers are Thames, Severn, Trent, Mersey, Tyne, Avon.
Words that can be made from the letters in 'Severn' are:eve, eveseveneverneenerve, nervesneverseeseenseerservesevenseversneerveer, veersverse