River in Berkshire, England
PangRiver Pang in
Pangbourne Country England Counties Berkshire Villages Farnborough, East Ilsley, Compton, Hampstead Norreys, Frilsham, Bucklebury, Stanford Dingley, Bradfield, Tidmarsh, Pangbourne Source • location Varies between Farnborough, Compton and Hampstead Norreys Mouth River Thames• location
Pangbourne Length 23 km (14 mi) Discharge • location Pangbourne • average 0.62 m3/s (22 cu ft/s) • minimum 0.07 m3/s (2.5 cu ft/s)24 August 1976 • maximum 6.50 m3/s (230 cu ft/s)22 November 1974 Discharge • location Frilsham • average 0.21 m3/s (7.4 cu ft/s) Tributaries • left Maidenhatch Brook • right River Bourne The River Pang in Bradfield The River Pang near Bradfield College, and just upstream of the previous picture A family of mute swans on the River PangThe River Pang is a small chalk stream river in the west of the English county of Berkshire, and a tributary of the River Thames. It runs for approximately 23 kilometres (14 mi) from its source near the village of Compton to its confluence with the Thames in the village of Pangbourne.
The river, and its water voles, are thought to have inspired author Kenneth Grahame's character Ratty and his book The Wind in the Willows.[1]
The river's source is normally near the village of Compton, although the exact location varies depending on rainfall levels. In times of high rainfall it can be traced back to Farnborough, some four miles to the west-north-west, whilst at other times it may be as far downstream as the outfall from Hampstead Norreys sewage works.
From Compton, the Pang flows south through the villages of Hampstead Norreys and Frilsham, before turning east to flow through the villages of Bucklebury, Stanford Dingley and Bradfield.[2]
To the east of Bradfield the Pang is joined by the River Bourne and turns north to flow through the villages of Tidmarsh and Pangbourne, eventually entering the Thames between Whitchurch Lock and Whitchurch Bridge.[3]
The valley of the River Pang between Compton and Bradfield is rather isolated, penetrated only by narrow country lanes. Because of this isolation, the valley has not become the residential commuter area that is much of Berkshire, and is still largely agricultural.
The Pang contains American signal crayfish, which have displaced the native white-clawed crayfish species.[4]
The Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust owns a nature reserve straddling the Pang at Moor Copse, close to the village of Tidmarsh. A 29 ha (72-acre) extension to the nature reserve, in the area that is believed to have inspired Kenneth Grahame's work, was purchased in December 2006.[5]
In August 2007 a coalition of the WWF, the National Trust, the RSPB and others[6] called on the British government to adopt their Blueprint for Water. To publicize their campaign they highlighted the dangers to sites well known through literature such as The Lake District (Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons and Beatrix Potter's Mrs Tiggy-Winkle), the North Kent Marshes (Charles Dickens's Great Expectations) and the River Pang.[1]
The Environment Agency measures the water quality of the river systems in England. Each is given an overall ecological status, which may be one of five levels: high, good, moderate, poor and bad. There are several components that are used to determine this, including biological status, which looks at the quantity and varieties of invertebrates, angiosperms and fish, and chemical status, which compares the concentrations of various chemicals against known safe concentrations. Chemical status is rated good or fail.[7]
Water quality of the River Pang in 2019:
Section EcologicalThe river is named after a man, thought to be an early Saxon chieftain, or tribe called Pǣga who lived there in the post-Roman era.[9]
Greenaway, Dick (2007). Around the Valley of the Pang. Dorcas Ward (illus.). Theale, Reading: Friends of the Pang, Kennet and Lambourn Valleys. ISBN 978-09543597-2-0.
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