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:

    It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.... As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see “the River Tiber foaming with much blood.”
    J. Enoch Powell (b. 1912)

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