The Steeping River, Gibralter Point, Lincolnshire, UK.
The Steeping River crosses the north-eastern corner of the Lincolnshire Fens south of Skegness. It begins life as the River Lymn which rises in the Lincolnshire Wolds and and enters the Fens between Great Steeping and Little Steeping and becomes the Steeping River, much straightened by drainage projects although part of the original meandering course remains and joins the main channel east of Wainfleet All Saints. The latter was a significant medieval port, then much closer to the sea, and produced salt from sea water, but silting gradually closed it and the lower part of the river, known latterly also as Wainfleet Haven, now winds through salt marshes forming part of the Gibralter Point nature reserve, a Site of Special Scientific Interest and Ramsar Site. A few leisure craft still moor in the Haven but commercial traffic, which for some while had involved transhipment to barges at Gibralter Point, ceased in the 1920s.
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