Talk:List of rivers of Scotland

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Which is right? I have included the tables from both the Brit and the Scottish sites. There seem to be descrepancies, in the case of the Don and the Tay.

	River	Length (miles)	(km)
1	River Severn	220	354
2	River Thames	215	346
3	River Trent	185	297
4	River Aire	161	259
5	River Great Ouse	143	230
6	River Wye	135	215
7	River Tay	117	188
8	River Spey	107	172
9	River Nene	100	161
10	River Clyde	98	158
11	River Tweed	96	155
12	River Eden, Cumbria	90	145
13	River Dee, Aberdeenshire	85	137
14	River Avon, Warwickshire	84	136
15	River Don, Aberdeenshire	80	129
16	River Bann	76	122
17	River Ribble	75	120
18	River Tyne	73	118
19	River Tees	70	113
20	River Dee, Wales	70	112

[edit] By length

The ten major rivers of Scotland, in order of length, are:

1. River Tay 193 km (120 miles)
2. River Spey 172 km (107 miles)
3. River Clyde 171 km (106 miles)
4. River Tweed 156 km (97 miles)
5. River Dee 137 km (85 miles)
6. River Don 132 km (82 miles)
7. River Forth 105 km (65 miles)
8. River Findhorn 101 km (63 miles)
9. River Deveron 98 km (61 miles)
10. River Annan 79 km (49 miles)

--MacRusgail 20:44, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

EB suggests 120 miles (193km) for the Tay [1], 82 miles (132km) for the Don [2], 106 miles (170km) for the Clyde [3]... In fact, EB appears to agree with all the figures from the Geography of Scotland page.