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I've lived in Reading for some years, and I've never heard anyone suggest a derivation for the name of the River Kennet from cunt. Unsurprisingly given the age of most of them, it is also not in any local history book I can lay my hands on. I have requested Ashley Y to quote a source for his contribution. -- Chris j wood 14:47, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Latest comment: 11 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
is wrong when it labels the river going through Reading and the Oracle up to County Lock as the River Thames. I told Google about this ages ago but they won't change it. QuentinUK (talk) 18:26, 21 April 2013 (UTC)Reply
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The claim in the lede is that the Kennet is the “largest tributary” of the Thames, but doesn’t say by what metric. The River Wey is much longer and drains a larger basin. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 12:38, 9 September 2020 (UTC)Reply
The claim is unreferenced so I have deleted it. Dudley Miles (talk) 12:52, 9 September 2020 (UTC)Reply
It wasn't me that added the claim, but I think this is by average discharge. (Both the Kennet and the Cherwell beat the Wey on this metric.) The Environment Agency had a publication on their website a few years ago that listed the average discharges of all main rivers in England, but I cannot now find it. I suspect it would be best for the claim to remain deleted until we have a decent source. Mertbiol (talk) 17:35, 9 September 2020 (UTC)Reply
Found it! Nothing to do with the Environment Agency after all: Marsh, T; Hannaford, J, eds. (2008). UK Hydrographic Register(PDF). Hydrological data UK series. Wallingford, Oxfordshire: Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. ISBN978-0-9557672-2-7. Archived(PDF) from the original on 5 October 2013. Retrieved 9 September 2020. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)Mertbiol (talk) 17:44, 9 September 2020 (UTC)Reply
