Trent Falls

Trent Falls
Alkborough Flats and Trent Falls
Trent Falls  Trent Falls shown within Lincolnshire
OS grid reference	SE86162310
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Apex Light as it appeared in 1974

The more modern installation (taken in 2010)

Trent Falls is the name of the confluence of the River Ouse and the River Trent which forms the Humber in Yorkshire, England.

Despite a training wall and a mini-lighthouse called 'Apex Light', navigation at Trent Falls is not simple. There are no real waterfalls, but there is a very rapid race of water at difficult stages of the tide (especially spring tides), and there is a tidal bore on the Trent (the Trent Aegir). Boats coming down one river with an ebbing tide often have to wait several hours (sometimes beached on the sand, and sometimes overnight) until the tide turns and the flood can carry them up the other river.

The RSPB's Blacktoft Sands nature reserve lies adjacent. Overlooking Trent Falls from a hill a mile away to the east is Julian's Bower, an ancient turf maze on the edge of the Lincolnshire village of Alkborough.