Editing River Orwell (section)

==Estuary==
The estuary flows through different sections as it makes its way down from Ipswich to the sea:<ref name="Admiralty Chart No 2693">{{cite book |last1=Washington[[Edmund George Irving]] |title=Admiralty Chart No 2693 Approaches to Harwich |date=1966 |publisher=Admiralty |location=London |url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Admiralty_Chart_No_2693_Approaches_to_Harwich%2C_Published_1966.jpg}}</ref>

===Freston Reach===
Redgate Hard is located here. This [[Hard (nautical)|hard]] is probably post medieval.<ref name="SHE WHR 053">{{cite web |title=WHR 053 - Redgate Hard - |url=https://heritage.suffolk.gov.uk/Monument/MSF18125 |website=Suffolk Heritage Explorer |publisher=Suffolk County Council |access-date=19 February 2023}}</ref>
[[File:Freston Reach, River Orwell - geograph.org.uk - 765846.jpg|thumb|left|April 2008 showing remains of Redgate Hard]]
[[File:View across Freston Reach - geograph.org.uk - 661826.jpg|thumb|right|Freston Reach, January 2008]]
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===Downham Reach===
A whale was beached on Downham Reach around 1816.
[[File:The Whale at Downham Reach George Frost (c1816).jpg|thumb|left|Beached whale as recorded by [[George Frost (landscape painter)|George Frost]]]]
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===Potters Reach===
[[File:Potter's Reach of the Orwell estuary - geograph.org.uk - 1432814.jpg|thumb|left|Potters Reach, August 2009]]
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===Lower Reach===
At this point the Stour flows into the Orwell by [[Shotley|Shotley Point]].<ref name="Admiralty Chart No 2693"/>