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Welland

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Welland

River in Leicestershire and Lincolnshire, England; length 110 km/68 mi. It rises in Leicestershire and flows northeast through Stamford to the Wash. The river attracts tourists for trout and coarse fishing.

A tributary, the Eye Brook, has been dammed to form a reservoir for the new town of Corby 6.5 km/4 mi southeast of the Welland.

Welland

Town in Niagara Regional Municipality, south Ontario, Canada; population (1991) 48,000. It is situated on the Welland River and Canal, 19 km/12 mi southwest of Niagara Falls. Founded in 1830, with completion of the first Welland Canal, it developed as a market centre for the Niagara fruit growing region, and more recently became an industrial centre, making textiles, rubber goods, chemicals, and brass, iron, and steel items.



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It was only that afternoon that May Welland had let him guess that she "cared" (New York's consecrated phrase of maiden avowal), and already his imagination, leaping ahead of the engagement ring, the betrothal kiss and the march from Lohengrin, pictured her at his side in some scene of old European witchery.
The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith View in context
The bloody battle alluded to in the text, fought and won by King Harold, over his brother the rebellious Tosti, and an auxiliary force of Danes or Norsemen, was said, in the text, and a corresponding note, to have taken place at Stamford, in Leicestershire, and upon the river Welland.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
"Well," said the still waiting Harriet;" welland and what shall I do?
Emma by Austen, Jane View in context
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