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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|River in Northamptonshire and Warwickshire, England}}<br />
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[[File:River_Leam_Aerial_View.png|thumb|right|The River Leam in [[Leamington Spa]]]]<br />
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The '''River Leam''' ({{IPAc-en|l|ɛ|m}}) is a [[river]] in England which rises at [[Hellidon]] Hill in [[Northamptonshire]] then flows through [[Warwickshire]], including the town of [[Leamington Spa]],<ref name=ea>{{cite web |title=River Leam Catchment Pilot |url=http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/research/planning/144137.aspx |publisher=Environment Agency |access-date=2 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130202045624/http://environment-agency.gov.uk/research/planning/144137.aspx |archive-date=2 February 2013 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> named after it. It then flows into the [[River Avon, Warwickshire|River Avon]] near [[Warwick]], which flows into the [[River Severn]].<br />
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==Toponymy==<br />
The name is first recorded in 956 as ''Limenan'', and derives from [[Common Brittonic|British]] ''Lemanā'', meaning "elm-tree river".<ref>{{citation |contribution=Leam |editor-last=Watts |editor-first=Victor |editor-link=Victor Watts |title=The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |year=2010 |isbn=9780521168557}}</ref><br />
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== Tributaries ==<br />
Its major tributaries are [[Rains Brook]], [[River Itchen, Warwickshire|River Itchen]], [[River Stowe]] and [[Radford Brook]].<ref name=ea/><br />
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==Water quality==<br />
The Environment Agency measures the water quality of the river systems in England. Each is given an overall ecological status, which may be one of five levels: 'high', 'good', 'moderate', 'poor' or 'bad'. There are several components that are used to determine this, including biological status, which looks at the quantity and varieties of [[invertebrate]]s, [[angiosperm]]s and fish. Chemical status, which compares the concentrations of various chemicals against known safe concentrations, is rated 'good' or 'fail'.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://environment.data.gov.uk/catchment-planning/help/glossary |website=Catchment Data Explorer |title=Glossary (see Biological quality element; Chemical status; and Ecological status) |publisher=Environment Agency |date=17 February 2016}} [[File:Open Government Licence logo.svg|30px]] Text was copied from this source, which is available under an [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Open Government Licence v3.0]. © Crown copyright.</ref><br />
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Water quality of the River Leam in 2019:<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Section !! Ecological<br/>Status !! Chemical<br/>Status !! Overall<br/>Status !! Length !! Catchment !! Channel<br />
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| {{waterqual_title |desc=Leam - source to conf Rains Bk |asset= GB109054044120}} <br />
| {{waterqual_poor}} <br />
| {{waterqual_fail}} <br />
| {{waterqual_poor}} <br />
| {{convert| 23.642 |km|mi|abbr=on}}<br />
| {{convert| 62.907 |km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}<br />
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|-<br />
| {{waterqual_title |desc=Leam - conf Rains Brook to conf River Itchen |asset= GB109054044130}} <br />
| {{waterqual_mod}} <br />
| {{waterqual_fail}} <br />
| {{waterqual_mod}} <br />
| {{convert| 13.775 |km|mi|abbr=on}}<br />
| {{convert| 62.148 |km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| {{waterqual_title |desc= Leam - conf River Itchen to conf River Avon |asset= GB109054044140}} <br />
| {{waterqual_poor}} <br />
| {{waterqual_fail}} <br />
| {{waterqual_poor}} <br />
| {{convert| 22.553 |km|mi|abbr=on}}<br />
| {{convert| 65.72 |km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}<br />
| <br />
|}<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Rivers of the United Kingdom]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.hunningham.org.uk The Manor of Hunningham]<br />
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