The River Chess is a chalk stream which springs from Chesham, Buckinghamshire and runs through Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire, in south-eastern England. The Chess, along with the Colne and Gade, gives rise to the name of the district of Three Rivers, in which it forms its confluence with the Colne at Rickmansworth.
The River Chess fall is 60 metres and its length is 11 miles (18 km).
Read more about River Chess: Etymology, River Course, Drought, Wildlife, Human Influences, Chess Cress, Chess Valley Walk
Famous quotes containing the words river and/or chess:
“but we wish the river had another shore,
some further range of delectable mountains,”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
“I once heard of a murderer who propped his two victims up against a chess board in sporting attitudes and was able to get as far as Seattle before his crime was discovered.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)