Everything about The River Orwell totally explained
The
River Orwell flows through the
county of
Suffolk in
England. Its source river, above the tidal limit, is known as the
River Gipping. It broadens into an
estuary at
Ipswich and flows into the
North Sea at
Felixstowe after joining with the
River Stour at
Shotley. In the name
Orwell,
Or- comes from an ancient river-name — probably pre-Celtic; but
-well probably indicates an Anglo-Saxon naming.
The writer Eric Blair chose the pen name under which he'd later become famous, "
George Orwell", because of his love for the river.
The Orwell provides a popular venue for
sailing. Interest originally centred on the hamlet of
Pin Mill (featured in two children's novels by
Arthur Ransome:
We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea and
Secret Water) and its "hard", and is home to the Pin Mill Sailing Club. For many years Pin Mill was a centre for the repair of
Thames sailing barges. During World War II, Pin Mill was home to Royal Navy MLs (
Motor Launches) and to a
degaussing vessel created from a herring drifter, and prior to the
Normandy invasion in 1944 was also home port, with
Woolverstone, to many LCTs (
Landing Craft, Tanks) used in the invasion.
Since the
1970s marinas have opened at
Levington (Suffolk Yacht Harbour, pictured), Woolverstone, Fox's (just outside Ipswich), and two marinas in the old
Ipswich Wet Dock. Woolverstone is home to the
Royal Harwich Yacht Club that was for many years host to the Swordfish 15-foot racing dinghy built by
Fairey Marine, in addition to its 12-foot Firefly, a derivative of the National 12-foot dinghy. A notable local figure is Austin Farrar, builder of the first cold-moulded
International 14, who later founded Seahorse Sails.
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