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:

    “This spirit it was which so early carried the French to the Great Lakes and the Mississippi on the north, and the Spaniard to the same river on the south. It was long before our frontiers reached their settlements in the West, and a voyageur or coureur de bois is still our conductor there.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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