Editing River Orwell (section)

==Name==
In the name ''Orwell'', ''Or-'' comes from an ancient river-name—probably pre-Celtic; but ''-well'' probably indicates an Anglo-Saxon naming.<ref>
A D Mills: ''A dictionary of British place-names''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. {{ISBN|0-19-852758-6}}</ref> In ''A tour through England and Wales'', written in 1722, [[Daniel Defoe]] calls the river "Orwel" (though he does this inconsistently).<ref>Daniel Defoe, ''A tour through England and Wales'', J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd, London (1959) [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/text/chap_page.jsp?t_id=Defoe&c_id=3&p_id=44 Available online here]</ref> He also mentions that "a traveller will hardly understand me, especially a seaman, when I speak of the River Stour and the River Orwell at Harwich, for they know them by no other names than those of Maningtre-Water, and Ipswich-Water". The writer Eric Blair chose the pen name under which he would later become famous, "[[George Orwell]]," because of his love for the river.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.george-orwell.org/l_biography.html |title=George Orwell Biography |access-date=2006-07-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060621134344/http://www.george-orwell.org/l_biography.html |archive-date=June 21, 2006 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title=The Miracle of Language | first=Richard | last=Lederer | publisher=Simon and Schuster | year=1999 | isbn=0-671-02811-1 | page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780671028114/page/134 134] | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780671028114/page/134 }}</ref>
A few miles north of the Orwell is another Suffolk river, the [[River Alde|Ore]], and Orfordness, the village port of Orford with its historic [[Orford Castle|castle]].