River Alre

Coordinates: 51°05′31″N 1°10′37″W / 51.092°N 1.177°W / 51.092; -1.177

Alre Valley

The River Alre (also, occasionally, Arle^[1]) is a river in the English county of Hampshire. It is a tributary of the River Itchen, which it joins just downstream of the town of New Alresford. Previously the Itchen itself was referred to as the River Alre.^[2][3] Daniel Defoe mentions the river in his book A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain.^[4]

The river is a classic English chalk stream with shallow gravel bottom and fast flowing waters fed year round by chalk springs.

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Hydrology of Hampshire Main rivers River Alre River Anton Avon Water River Avon Bartley Water Beaulieu River River Blackwater (River Loddon) River Blackwater (River Test) Bourne Rivulet Candover Brook Cove Brook Dark Water (river) River Dever River Dun (River Test) River Ems (Chichester Harbour) River Hamble River Itchen, Hampshire Kingsley Stream River Loddon Lymington River River Meon Monks Brook Oakhanger Stream Oxney Stream River Rother, West Sussex River Test River Wallington River Wey River Whitewater Canals and Navigations Andover Canal Basingstoke Canal Itchen Navigation Portsmouth and Arundel Canal Salisbury and Southampton Canal Titchfield Canal Ordinary watercourses Bentworth Stream West End Brook Lakes, ponds and wetlands Chessel Bay Eyeworth Pond Fleet Pond Keyhaven, Pennington, Oxey and Normandy Marshes Farlington Marshes Lakeside Country Park Manor Farm duck pond Testwood Lakes Waggoners Wells Categories: Rivers, Canals