Swift Ditch (Q7656049)

  • matcher place: South Oxfordshire (relation 299097)
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  • Wikipedia: English, German
  • English Wikipedia categories: Rivers of Oxfordshire, Thames drainage basin
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    [timeout:300][out:json];
    (
        node(around:1000,51.66360,-1.27028)[waterway][~"^(addr:housenumber|.*name.*)$"~".",i];
        way(around:1000,51.66360,-1.27028)[waterway][~"^(addr:housenumber|.*name.*)$"~".",i];
        rel(around:1000,51.66360,-1.27028)[waterway][~"^(addr:housenumber|.*name.*)$"~".",i];
        node(around:1000,51.66360,-1.27028)[natural=water][name];
        way(around:1000,51.66360,-1.27028)[natural=water][name];
        rel(around:1000,51.66360,-1.27028)[natural=water][name];
    );
    out center tags;
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Swift Ditch is a 2 km (1.2 mi) long artificial channel that formed a short-cut for river traffic to and from Oxford, across a meander of the River Thames in England. It was formerly the primary navigation channel. With the main river, it creates Andersey Island on the left bank of the Thames opposite Abingdon-on-Thames. Within a poem published in 1632, the Water Poet John Taylor wrote:

Wikidata location: 51.6636, -1.2703 view on OSM or edit on OSM

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way: Swift Ditch (OSM), 4 metres from Wikidata [show tags]
boat: no
name: Swift Ditch
source: NPE
waterway: river
wikidata: Q7656049
wikipedia: en:Swift Ditch

wikidata match: Q7656049

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body of water (Q15324) natural=water
watercourse (Q355304) waterway

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Rivers of Oxfordshire type=waterway