River Tame

River Tame is a Celtic river name, used in England to refer to:

  • River Tame, Greater Manchester, a river that meets the Goyt to form the Mersey
  • River Tame, West Midlands, the largest tributary of the Trent
  • River Tame, North Yorkshire, a tributary of the Leven and then the Tees

Famous quotes containing the words river and/or tame:

    Other roads do some violence to Nature, and bring the traveler to stare at her, but the river steals into the scenery it traverses without intrusion, silently creating and adorning it, and is as free to come and go as the zephyr.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    To tame a tiger one has to know its nature.
    Chinese proverb.