River Wye
The River Wye is the fourth-longest river in the UK, stretching some 250 kilometres from its source on Plynlimon in mid Wales to the Severn Estuary. The lower reaches of the river forms part of the border between England and Wales.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: River
- Description: river in Wales and England
- Also known as: “Wye”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chepstow Castle and Chepstow Museum.
Chepstow Castle
Photo: eszgé, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chepstow Castle at Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales, is the oldest surviving post-Roman stone fortification in Britain. Located above cliffs on the River Wye, construction began in 1067 under the instruction of the Norman Lord William FitzOsbern.
Chepstow Museum
Museum
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chepstow Museum is a museum in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, south east Wales. It is operated by Monmouthshire Museums Service.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tutshill and Chepstow.
Tutshill
Village
Photo: Roy Parkhouse, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tutshill is a village within the parish of Tidenham in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. It is located on the eastern bank of the River Wye, which forms the boundary with Monmouthshire at this point and which separates the village from the town of Chepstow.
Chepstow
Photo: wildlife encounters, CC BY 2.0.
Chepstow is an ancient market town and former port situated on the River Wye in South Wales a short distance upstream from where the Wye and Severn rivers merge.
Sedbury
Village
Photo: Steve F, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sedbury is a village in the Forest of Dean district of west Gloucestershire, England. It is located on the eastern bank of the River Wye, facing the town of Chepstow in Monmouthshire.
River Wye
- Category: body of water
- Location: Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.64893° or 51° 38′ 56″ northLongitude
-2.67115° or 2° 40′ 16″ westOpen location code
9C3VJ8XH+HGOpenStreetMap ID
way 27220192OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=river
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“River Wye” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر واي”
- Armenian: “Ուայ”
- Asturian: “Ríu Wye”
- Basque: “Wye ibaia”
- Belarusian: “Уай”
- Breton: “Gwy”
- Bulgarian: “Уай”
- Catalan: “Afon Gwy”
- Catalan: “Wye”
- Cebuano: “River Wye”
- Chinese: “瓦伊河”
- Chuvash: “Уай”
- Czech: “Wye”
- Danish: “Wye”
- Dutch: “Wye”
- Faroese: “Wye”
- Finnish: “Wye”
- French: “Wye”
- Georgian: “უაი”
- German: “River Wye”
- German: “Wye”
- Hebrew: “וואי”
- Hindi: “वेई नदी”
- Hungarian: “Wye”
- Indonesian: “Wye”
- Irish: “Afon Gwy”
- Italian: “Wye”
- Japanese: “ワイ川”
- Latin: “Vaga Fluvius”
- Latin: “Vaga”
- Latvian: “Vaja”
- Lithuanian: “Vajus”
- Livvi: “Afon Gwy”
- Marathi: “वेई नदी”
- Mingrelian: “უაი (წყარმალუ)”
- Mingrelian: “უაი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wye”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wye”
- Norwegian: “Wye”
- Panjabi: “ਵਾਇ ਦਰਿਆ”
- Panjabi: “ਵੇਈ ਨਦੀ”
- Persian: “رود وای”
- Piemontese: “Wye”
- Polish: “Wye”
- Portuguese: “Rio Wye”
- Russian: “Уай”
- Serbian: “Вај”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wye”
- Slovak: “Wye”
- Slovenian: “Wye”
- Spanish: “Río Wye”
- Spanish: “Wye”
- Swedish: “Wye”
- Turkish: “Wye Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Вай”
- Upper Sorbian: “Wye”
- Venetian: “Fiume Wye”
- Welsh: “Afon Gwy”
- Western Frisian: “Wye”
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