This article is about the British river Alt. For other uses of the term, see Alt (disambiguation). There are several things named Alt, including // Abbreviations (TLAs) ALT is an abbreviation for alanine transaminase, an enzyme in the liver. ...
The River Alt is in LancashireUnited Kingdom. For the Second World War frigate class, see River class frigate The Murray River in Australia A river is a large natural waterway. ... Lancashire (archaically, the County of Lancaster) is a county palatine of England, lying on the Irish Sea. ...
The Alt runs from Hag Plantation in Huyton at 125ft (40m), through Croxteth Park emptying into the Irish Sea at Hightown. Huyton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England. ... Croxteth Hall is the former country estate of the Earl of Sefton, now managed by the Liverpool City Council. ... The Irish Sea separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain. ... Hightown is a town in Sefton, Merseyside, England. ...
The banks of the river are lined by villages with names of Viking origin. The name Viking is a loan from the native Scandinavian term for the Norse seafaring warriors who raided the coasts of Scandinavia, the British Isles, and other parts of Europe from the late 8th century to the 11th century, the period of European history referred to as the Viking Age. ...
It described the flooding and erosion of the land caused by the RiverAlt and the hardships felt by the affected communities.
Alison Maddock in her study, "The RiverAlt Levels -1589-1779"(8) states that : "the Alt is small river Â…whose influence on life and livelihood in the area has been out of all proportion to it's size".
Whatever, it was not until the "Alt Drainage Act -1779" (12) that authorities addressed the problems facing the communities and, on investigation, found the changing course of the Alt to be the reason for the erosion at the shore.
ALT (band), a group of musicians, the members of which are Andy White, Liam O'Maonlai and Tim Finn.
Alt attribute, an attribute in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), whose value is text that is normally used to indicate the function of an image in situations where the image is not displayed.
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