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The River Frome is a river in the south west of England. It is not to be confused with other rivers of the same name.
Twenty miles long, it rises in Dodington Park in the Cotswolds of Gloucestershire, then follows a roughly south-westerly route towards Bristol, where it joins the Floating Harbour. It has two main tributaries (Bradley and Folly Brooks) and a number of smaller ones.
A section of it, from Frenchay Bridge to Snuff Mills is navigable, but only by canoe
Between Stapleton and Frenchay it drops nearly 50 ft, and as a result there were a number of corn and other mills. They were undershot mills with no mill ponds - today, all that is left is a wheel at Snuff Mills.
Where it passes through Bristol it was prone to flooding, but a storm water channel has since been constructed to control this. It emerges from an underground culvert at what Bristolians call The Centre. This culvert was recently lengthened to over two miles when a motorway spur was built.
In the mid 20th century it was know in some parts of the city as the Danny River. The derivation, and even the spelling, of this name is uncertain.
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