A-Z Challenge 2018 - British Rivers: 'J' Jordan

I never expected when I started this Challenge that I would find that I have bathed in the waters of the River Jordan. 

I did not know that the Jordan rises in Northamptonshire runs for 4 miles through Leicestershire and enters the River Welland at Market Harborough.

I swam in the Jordan/Welland waters at the 30ft bathing spot on the Welland at my home village of Ketton in Rutland.

River Jordan at Little Bowden
(by Jonathan Calder at Liberal England)

I have also found a second English Jordan down on the south coast in Dorset.

River Jordan near Preston

Footbridge over the R Jordan at Sutton Poyntz

This is the river included in a painting by John Constable in 1816 and where it enters the sea near Weymouth,

Weymouth Bay

Weymouth Bay includes Bowleaze Cove, Jordan Hill and the small River Jordan flowing over the beach with Furzy Cliff in the background.

The Constable painting is in the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, London.

Photo attributions:

• River Jordan near Preston: 19 Nov 2007 ex geograph.org.uk by Graham Horn - CC BY-SA 2.0l icence
• Footbridge over River Jordan: 13 February 2010 ex geograph.org.uk by Chris Downer - CC BY-SA 2.0l icence
• Weymouth Bay: National Gallery in Public Domain.