Bytham River

The Bytham River has been proposed as an ancient river in Pleistocene Great Britain that has been suggested to have run through the English Midlands until around 450,000 years ago. Its course has been suggested as the route that the first humans to visit Britain took. If it existed as a single entity, the river rose in the vicinity of modern-day Stratford-on-Avon and ran through the Midlands for millennia during the first half of the Pleistocene period. It ran north east towards modern day Leicester then may have turned east into East Anglia. At this point it turned south to Bury St Edmunds before turning east again towards Lowestoft and emptying into the southern North Sea. Much of the river valley was scoured away by the Anglian...