Talk:River Welland

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External links modified (January 2018)
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Rerouting of A16
The A16 was rerouted some years ago and no longer goes to Stamford. All occurrences of 'A16 bridge' in the course diagram should be checked. Mdrb55 (talk) 20:52, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Open Street Map says the bridge in Stamford is the A1175; Google Maps says it's the A43. I don't know which is correct! Mdrb55 (talk) 21:00, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

The bridge south of Spalding is the A1175 on both OSM and Google Maps. The bridge on the north edge of Spalding is still the A16. Mdrb55 (talk) 21:07, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Length
It is not immediately clear where the figure cited for the length of the Welland in the article (65mi/105km) originates. I have however painstakingly measured its length on online 1:25,000 scale OS mapping using a digital tool at the wheresthepath website and determined it at 81.8mi/131.6km to the county limit and 85.1mi/137km to the point (Welland Outfall) at which arguably it and the River Witham enter the waters of the Wash. I'd be confident of the accuracy of the figure to within 1%. This is of course original research on my part so cannot be included in the article but it does at least give an idea of what a true figure should look like if and when an editor finds a suitable reference out there! cheers Geopersona (talk) 19:15, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
 * It seems you are right,, that the 65 mile figure is wrong but commonly used. Add up the lengths (from the Environment Agency) in the section River Welland and you get 78.4mi/126.2km.
 * Other estimates:
 * http://www.wellandriverstrust.org.uk/the-river-welland/ has 105km
 * https://www.britannica.com/place/River-Welland "about 70 miles (110 km)"
 * So, what Reliable Source can we use to support a longer-than-65-miles length? Nedrutland (talk) 11:10, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Ah, well yes - finding that is indeed our challenge! I attempted to encourage Ordnance Survey to publish river lengths but they shied away from it - I can understand why they'd do that, given the subjective element in coming up with a 'definitive' figure. Geopersona (talk) 18:24, 2 January 2022 (UTC)