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)
“Nowadays almost all man’s improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more and more tame and cheap.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)