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Lovely little river - and a chalk stream in its upper reaches. New Mills is a tragedy. We still have migratory fish using the Yare and a bit of the Wensum {actually I think the river is improperly named. The Wensum should run from Fakenham, through Norwich to the sea at Yarmouth, leaving the Yare to flow into it at Trowse}. However these migratory fish - and I mean Sea Trout and salmon (Old Salar hisself) get to New Mills and can get no further. What a fine thing it would be to install a fish ladder at New Mills and drop a few salmon parr in the Upper Wensum. Thames Water did it for a PR stunt near Reading in the 1970s. Why not today on the Wensum? The Fine City would impress many guests if they sat in the sunshine, supping whatever they fancied and suddenly there were leaping salmon in front of their eyes. So much more civilised than pink elephants.

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But looking backwards, the Wensum provides little hints of its historic importance. It changes name at Trowse Hythe. Hythe of course, is an Anglo Saxon word meaning landing stage - as in Rotherhithe.

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