River Windrush

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name = Windrush
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image_caption = The Windrush at Bourton-on the-Water
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region = Gloucestershire
region1 = Oxfordshire
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city = Bourton-on-the-Water
city1 = Burford
city2 = Witney
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source_district = Gloucestershire
source_region = Cotswold Hills
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source_lat_s = 54.51
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source_long_s = 59.64
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mouth_name = River Thames
mouth_location = Newbridge
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map_caption =The River Windrush is a river in the English Cotswolds, forming part of the River Thames catchment.

The river starts in the Cotswold Hills in Gloucestershire northeast of Taddington, which is north of Guiting Power, Temple Guiting, Ford and Cutsdean. It flows for about 40 miles through Bourton-on-the-Water, and the village of Windrush, into Oxfordshire and through Burford, Witney, Ducklington and Standlake. It meets the Thames at Newbridge upstream of Northmoor Lock.

The river is host to fish, including trout, grayling, perch, chub, roach and dace. It held good populations of native crayfish until at least the 1980s. River waters were used in cloth and woollen blanket making in Witney from mid 17th century.

In 2007, the Windrush was one of many rivers in the area to flood. Towns and villages along the entire length of the river were affected, but particular problems were caused in Witney, which was cut in half by the closure of the only bridge across the river.

ee also

*List of rivers in England
*Empire Windrush, a ship of historic note

River item line|upstream=Rive Cole (south)
downstream=River Evenlode (north)