River Tawd

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The River Tawd flows through Skelmersdale, a new town in Lancashire, England, designed and built predominantly between the mid-1960s and the 1980s.

The Tawd Bridge carried Ormskirk Road, the main arterial road from Wigan to Ormskirk and Southport. This is well-known to Upholland locals as the place where highwayman George Lyons held up his victims during the 18th century. Today, the river flows through the middle of Skelmersdale in large culverts. It emerges at the town's shopping centre (The Concourse) and flows into a Country park on the site of the 19th and early 20th century Skelmersdale colliery. Parts of the river are a County Biological Heritage Site.

It is a tributary of the River Douglas which it joins near Hoscar.

[edit] Tributaries

• Slate Brook
• Grimshaw Brook