Trent

Trent, a river of central England, the third in length, rising on Biddulph Moor on the north-west border of Staffordshire, and flowing south-east through Staffordshire, then north-east through the counties of Derby, Leicester, Nottingham, and Lincoln, till it unites with the Ouse to form the Humber, about 15 miles W. of Hull. It receives on the right the Sow, Tame, Soar, and Devon, and on the left the Blythe, Dove, and Derwent; passes the towns of Burton, Nottingham, Newark, and Gainsborough; and is about 150 miles long—navigable for barges to Burton (117 miles), for vessels of 200 tons to Gainsborough (25 miles). By canals it is widely connected with many of the great Midland manufacturing towns. See The Rivers of England (Cassell, 1889).