Stour

Meaning

Proper Noun

• river Dorset (county) England (constituent country), which flows into the English Channel at Christchurch.
• river Kent (county) England (constituent country), running from the confluence of the Great Stour and Little Stour to the English Channel at Pegwell Bay.
• river Essex (county) and Suffolk (county) England (constituent country), flowing into the North Sea at Harwich.
• river Oxfordshire (county) and Warwickshire (county) England (constituent country), which joins the Warwickshire Avon near Stratford-on-Avon.
• river Staffordshire (county), West Midlands, and Worcestershire, England, which flows into the River Severn.

Origin

• Most of the rivers' names are from the root of stour, though some may have been borrowed through and influenced by Celtic (compare Welsh dŵr.