Editing Hamoaze

{{Short description|Section of the River Tamar in southwest England}}
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{{Use British English|date=March 2018}}
{{Infobox river
| name               = Hamoaze
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| name_etymology     = 
| nickname           =
| image              = Devonport Dockyard.jpg
| image_size         = 250px
| image_caption      = [[HMNB Devonport|Devonport Dockyard]] and the Hamoaze from the [[Rame Peninsula]], [[Cornwall]]
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| mouth              = [[Plymouth Sound]]
| mouth_coordinates  = {{Coord|50|23|44|N|4|12|28|W|type:river_region:GB-DEV|display=title,inline}}
| tributaries_left   = * St John's Lake
* Millbrook Lake
| tributaries_right  = 
| ports              = [[HMNB Devonport]]
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The '''Hamoaze''' ({{IPAc-en|h|æ|m|ˈ|oʊ|z}}; {{IPA|kw|ˈhɒmøz|[[Cornish language|Cornish]] pronunciation:}}) is an [[estuary|estuarine]] stretch of the English tidal [[River Tamar]], between its confluence with the [[River Lynher]] and [[Plymouth Sound]].

==Etymology==
The name first appears as ''ryver of Hamose'' in 1588. The first element is thought to refer to specifically to [[Ham, Plymouth|Ham]] in the parish of [[Weston Peverel]], now a suburb of Plymouth (whose name in turn came from the [[Old English]] word {{lang|ang|hamm}}, meaning "water-meadow, land in the bend of a river"). The second element is thought to derive from Old English {{lang|ang|wāse}} meaning "mud" (as in "ooze"). Thus the name once meant "mud-banks at Ham". The name originally probably applied only to a creek running past Ham, which perhaps consisted of mud-banks at low tide, north of the present-day [[HMNB Devonport|Devonport Dockyard]]. The name later came to be used for the main channel of the estuary into which the creek drained.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gover |first=J. E. B. |title=The Place-names of Devon |last2=Mawer |first2=A. |last3=Stenton |first3=F. M. |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1931–32 |series=English Place-Name Society, 8-9 |volume=1 |location=Cambridge |pages=20, 246}}</ref>

==Geography==
The Hamoaze flows past Devonport Dockyard, which is one of three major bases of the [[Royal Navy]] today. The presence of large numbers of small [[watercraft]] is a challenge and hazard to the [[warship]]s using the naval base and dockyard. Navigation on the waterway is controlled by the [[King's Harbour Master]] for Plymouth.<ref>[http://www.gov.uk/government/groups/qhm-plymouth Queen's Harbour Master Plymouth]</ref><ref>[http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2029/made The Dockyard Port of Plymouth Order 1999]</ref>

Settlements on the banks of the Hamoaze are [[Saltash]], [[Wilcove]], [[Torpoint]] and [[Cremyll]] in [[Cornwall]], as well as [[Devonport, Devon|Devonport]] and [[Plymouth]] in [[Devon]].

Two regular ferry services crossing the Hamoaze exist: the [[Torpoint Ferry]] (a [[chain ferry]] that takes vehicles) and the [[Cremyll Ferry]] (passengers and cyclists only).

A street in Torpoint bears the name Hamoaze Road, named after the stretch of river.

[[File:HMS Eagle (R05) laid up at Plymouth, 13 January 1973.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|center|{{HMS|Eagle|R05|6}} [[Reserve fleet|laid up]] in the Hamoaze in January 1973]]

==See also==
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* [[Tamar-Tavy Estuary]]

==References==
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== External links ==
* {{Commons category-inline|Hamoaze}}

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[[Category:Estuaries of England]]
[[Category:Geography of Plymouth, Devon]]
[[Category:River Tamar]]
[[Category:Rivers of Cornwall]]
[[Category:Transport in Plymouth, Devon]]

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