River Dun

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[edit] England

There are two waterways in England known as the River Dun. One is a tributary of the River Test in the English county of Hampshire. The other is a tributary of the River Kennet in English county of Berkshire.

[edit] Northern Ireland

The River Dun (in Irish: Abhann Duinne) translates into English as brown river and is a river which runs through Glendun, one of the nine Glens of Antrim in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. The river is named after its brown colour, which comes from the peat bogs at it's source on the slopes of Slevenanee on the Antrim Plateau. The source of the River Dun is a few hundred metres from that of the River Bush which flows north-east to meet the sea at Bushmills The river supports a population of brown trout which rarely attain weights exceeding one pound due to the naturally acidic chemistry of the water. Sea trout and salmon enter the river and make their way to the upstream spawning beds from July onwards. Eels are also present. The river is spanned by a three arched viaduct completed by Charles Lanyon in 1839.