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The River Stour is a River in East Anglia , England . It is 76km (47 m) long and forms most of the county boundary between Suffolk and Essex . It rises in eastern Cambridgeshire , passes though Haverhill , Cavendish , Sudbury and the Dedham Vale , and joins the North Sea at Harwich .

RSPB Stour Estuary is a Nature Reserve managed by the Royal Society For The Protection Of Birds .

The Stour valley has been portrayed as a working river by John Constable , Thomas Gainsborough and Paul Nash .

The River Stour Trust , a Waterway Restoration group, was set up in 1968 and has restored the Gasworks Cut and the 19th century Granary Building, now used as the Trust's Headquarters.


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