Talk:River Kennet

Derivation?
I've lived in Reading for some years, and I've never heard anyone suggest a derivation for the name of the River Kennet from cunt. Unsurprisingly given the age of most of them, it is also not in any local history book I can lay my hands on. I have requested Ashley Y to quote a source for his contribution. -- Chris j wood 14:47, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Google Maps...
is wrong when it labels the river going through Reading and the Oracle up to County Lock as the River Thames. I told Google about this ages ago but they won't change it. QuentinUK (talk) 18:26, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

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Largest tributary?
The claim in the lede is that the Kennet is the “largest tributary” of the Thames, but doesn’t say by what metric. The River Wey is much longer and drains a larger basin. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 12:38, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
 * The claim is unreferenced so I have deleted it. Dudley Miles (talk) 12:52, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
 * It wasn't me that added the claim, but I think this is by average discharge. (Both the Kennet and the Cherwell beat the Wey on this metric.) The Environment Agency had a publication on their website a few years ago that listed the average discharges of all main rivers in England, but I cannot now find it.  I suspect it would be best for the claim to remain deleted until we have a decent source. Mertbiol (talk) 17:35, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Found it! Nothing to do with the Environment Agency after all: Mertbiol (talk) 17:44, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Well done! Murgatroyd49 (talk) 17:52, 9 September 2020 (UTC)