'great thoroughfare'. A traditional but almost certainly wrong opinion is that of Izaak Walton, who states in The Compleat Angler (1653) that the Trent is "... so called from thirty kind of fishes that are found in it, or for that it receiveth thirty lesser rivers."

Course

The Trent rises within the Staffordshire Moorlands district, near the village of Biddulph Moor, from a number of sources including

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