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Ure Head (Source) |
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Fording Point |
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Green Bridge (foot) |
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Ure Crook |
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How Beck Bridge |
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Footbridge |
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Tongue Gill |
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Grass Gill |
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Scars Gill |
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Fording Point |
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Keld Gill |
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Blades Footbridge |
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Unnamed road |
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Johnston Gill |
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South Lunds Sike |
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Ure Force |
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Unnamed road |
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Lunds Gill Thorn |
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Tarn gill |
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Scothole Gill |
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Thwaite Bridge |
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Carr Gill |
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A684 |
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Mossdale Beck |
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Footbridge |
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Cottersdale Beck |
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A684 New Bridge |
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Widdale Beck |
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Hardraw Beck |
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Thorne Sike |
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Footbridge |
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Gayle Beck |
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Haylands Bridge Hawes |
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Footbridge |
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Blackburn Sike |
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Eller Beck |
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Nicholl Gill |
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Raygill Sike |
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Yore Bridge Bainbridge |
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Grays Beck |
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River Bain |
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Paddock Beck |
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West Mawks Sike |
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Worton Bridge Worton |
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Newbiggin Beck |
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Footbridge |
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Craike Sike Gutter |
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Sister Ings Beck |
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Starra Beck |
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Wanley Beck |
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Gill Beck |
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Footbridge |
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Eller Beck |
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Footbridge |
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Mill Race |
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Low Beck |
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Aysgarth Falls |
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Yore Bridge |
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Bishopdale/Walden Becks |
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Kendall Beck |
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Belden Beck/Swan River |
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Batt Island |
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Mill Beck |
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A684 Wensley Bridge |
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Wensley Beck |
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A684 Middleham Bridge |
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Mill Beck |
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Harmby/Spennithorne Becks |
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Ulshaw Bridge |
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The Batts |
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River Cover |
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Harker Beck |
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Kilgram Bridge |
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Footbridge |
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The Island |
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Markfield Goit |
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A6108 Masham Bridge |
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Footbridge |
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River Burn |
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Black Robin Beck |
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The Batts |
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A6108 Tanfield Bridge |
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Mill Batts |
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Light Water |
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The Sike |
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Hutton Mill Deep |
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North Bridge Ripon |
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A61 Ripon By-pass |
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Ripon Canal |
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B6265 Hewick Bridge |
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Bishop Monkton Cutt |
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Scour Gutter |
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Ings Drain |
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The Island |
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Croft Drain |
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Sleight |
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A1(M) |
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A168 Arrows Bridge |
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Borough Bridge |
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River Swale |
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Holbecks |
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Beck Closes Drain |
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Footbridge |
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Aldwark Bridge (Toll) |
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Changes to River Ouse |
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The source of the river is Ure Head on Abbotside Common where it flows west south-west to the valley floor and then turns south. Where it reaches the A684 it turns east along Wensleydale as far as Wensley. From here it flows south east to Jervaulx Abbey and shortly after south to Mickley. Here it returns east and then south to Ripon. A little way after Ripon it flows east again to Boroughbridge.
To the east of Boroughbridge, the Ure is joined by the River Swale. About 6 miles (9.7 km) downstream of this confluence, at Cuddy Shaw Reach near Linton-on-Ouse, the river changes its name to the River Ouse.