The River Piddle or Trent or North River is a small rural Dorset river which rises next to Alton Pancras church (Alton Pancras was originally named Awultune, a Saxon name meaning the village at the source of a river) and flows south and then south-easterly more or less parallel with its bigger sister, the River Frome, who it finally joins at Wareham, where they enter Poole Harbour. Dorset (pronounced Dorsit, sometimes in the past called Dorsetshire) is a county in the southwest of England, on the English Channel coast. ... For the Second World War frigate class, see River class frigate The Murray River in Australia A river is a large natural waterway. ... The source of a river, usually a lake or a spring, is the farthest point of a river from its estuary or confluence with another river. ... Alton Pancras is a village in west Dorset, England, situated in the Piddle valley 6 miles north of Dorchester and 15 miles south of Sherborne. ... A map showing the general locations of the major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms The Anglo-Saxons were a group of Germanic tribes from Angeln—a peninsula in the southern part of Schleswig, protruding into the Baltic Sea, and what is now Lower Saxony, in the north-west coast of Germany—who... The River Frome is a river in Dorset in the south of England. ... A confluence is the merger or meeting of two or more objects (or subjects) that seem to inseparably bind their respective forces or attributes into a point of junction. ... This article is about the town in England; you may have been looking for Wareham, Massachusetts . ... Poole Harbour is in Dorset, south England. ...

Many of the villages it passes through are named after it: Puddletown, Tolpuddle, Piddlehinton, Piddletrenthide, Affpuddle, Briantspuddle, Turnerspuddle. Puddletown is a village in Dorset, England, 5 miles east of Dorchester in the River Piddle valley. ... Tolpuddle is a small village in the southern English county of Dorset, situated in the Piddle valley, eight miles east of Dorchester and 12 miles west of Poole. ... Piddlehinton is a village in west Dorset, England situated in the Piddle valley five miles north of Dorchester. ... Piddletrenthide is a village in west Dorset, England, situated in the Piddle valley on the dip slope of the Dorset Downs, eight miles north of Dorchester. ... Affpuddle is a village in Dorset, England, situated in the Piddle valley nine miles east of Dorchester. ... Turners Puddle is a hamlet in Dorset, England, situated on the River Piddle in the Purbeck district, seven miles north west of Wareham. ...

See also

• Rivers of the United Kingdom
• List of interesting or unusual place names

There is also a watercourse named "Piddle Brook" in Worcestershire; two villages, North Piddle and Wyre Piddle lie along its course before it joins the River Avon near Pershore. A small brewery about a mile away named itself after the nearby brook, with its sole product being "Piddle Beer". This is a list of rivers of Great Britain. ... The following international geographical names are either interesting or unusual. ... Worcestershire (pronounced /ˈwʊstə.təʃə/ or /ˈwʊstə.təʃiːɜː/ or /ˈwʊstə.təʃaɪə/; abbreviated Worcs) is a county, located in the West Midlands region of central England. ... The River Avon or Avon is a river in or adjoining the counties of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire in the midlands of England. ...