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The River Aire is a major river in Yorkshire, England, in length. Part of the river below Leeds is canalised, and is known as the Aire and Calder Navigation. The Aire starts its journey at Malham Tarn before disappearing into a swallow hole a few metres above Malham Cove, it then flows underground to Aire Head, just below Malham, in North Yorkshire, and then flows through Gargrave and Skipton. After Cononley, the river enters West Yorkshire where it passes through the former industrial areas of Keighley, Bingley, Saltaire and Shipley. It then passes through Leeds and on to the villages of Swillington and Woodlesford. At Castleford is the confluence of the Aire and Calder; just downstream of the confluence was the ford where the ancient British road, used by the Romans, crossed on its way north to York. The river re-enters North Yorkshire near Knottingley and in its lower reaches forms part of the boundary between North Yorkshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire. The River Aire empties into the River Ouse at Airmyn, 'myn' being an old English word for 'river mouth'. The name possibly derived from Common Brittonic *Isara, meaning "strong river". The Aire could have been the ''winwœd'' or ''winwæd'' written about in Old English, from the Old English elements ''winnan or win'' ("strife", "fight") and ''( wæd )'' ("shallow water", "ford"), however others have proposed that it is actually the Went (also called the "wynt" in Old English) or the Cock Beck (see Battle of the Winwaed). Still others have claimed that it is actually the name of the battle and not the body of water itself.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Brief History of the Fairburn Area )〕〔Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity By Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne Published by Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1857 Item notes: ns.1 Original from Oxford University Digitized 24 January 2007〕 ==Settlements== ''from source'' *Malham *Hanlith *Airton *Bell Busk *Gargrave *Skipton *Low Bradley *Cononley *Kildwick *Silsden *Steeton *Utley *Keighley *Riddlesden *Crossflatts *Bingley *Saltaire *Shipley *Charlestown *Esholt *Apperley Bridge *Horsforth *Kirkstall *Holbeck *Leeds city centre *Knowsthorpe *Allerton Bywater *Castleford *Brotherton *Ferrybridge *Knottingley *Beal *West Haddlesey *Chapel Haddlesey *Temple Hirst *Hensall *Gowdall *Snaith *Rawcliffe *Newland *Airmyn (Joins River Ouse) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「River Aire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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