The Wash
The Wash is a shallow natural rectangular bay and multiple estuary on the east coast of England in the United Kingdom. It is an inlet of the North Sea and is the largest multiple estuary system in the UK, as well as being the largest natural bay in England and is the outflow for the rivers Witham, Welland, Nene and the Great Ouse.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Bogbumper, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gedney Drove End.
Gedney Drove End
Village
Photo: Ian Paterson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gedney Drove End is a village in the civil parish of Gedney and the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is 40 miles south-east from the city and county town of Lincoln, and 12 miles from both Boston at the north-west and King's Lynn at the south-east. Gedney Drove End is situated 6 miles southwest of The Wash.
The Wash
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in England, UK
- Category: body of water
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Western Frisian—“The Wash” goes by many names.
- Basque: “The Wash”
- Breton: “The Wash”
- Bulgarian: “Уош”
- Catalan: “The Wash”
- Cebuano: “The Wash (luuk sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Inglatera)”
- Cebuano: “The Wash”
- Chinese: “沃什河口”
- Chinese: “沃什灣”
- Chinese: “洗車好兄弟”
- Chinese: “華許灣”
- Czech: “The Wash”
- Czech: “Wash”
- Czech: “záliv Wash”
- Danish: “The Wash”
- Dutch: “The Wash”
- Dutch: “Wash Bay”
- Dutch: “Wash”
- Esperanto: “The Wash”
- Finnish: “The Wash”
- French: “The Wash”
- Galician: “The Wash”
- German: “The Wash”
- Hebrew: “ווש”
- Hungarian: “The Wash”
- Irish: “An Wash”
- Italian: “The Wash”
- Japanese: “ウォッシュ湾”
- Japanese: “ザ・ウォッシュ”
- Latvian: “Vošs”
- Lithuanian: “Vošo įlanka”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “The Wash”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “The Wash”
- Norwegian: “The Wash”
- Polish: “The Wash”
- Portuguese: “The Wash”
- Russian: “Залив Уош”
- Russian: “Уош”
- Serbian: “Залив Вош”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wash”
- Spanish: “Estuario del Wash”
- Spanish: “The Wash”
- Swedish: “The Wash”
- Swedish: “Wash”
- Venetian: “The Wash”
- Welsh: “Y Wash”
- Western Frisian: “The Wash”
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Localities in the Area
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