River Meden

River Meden
The river at Bothamsall.
Location
Country	England
County	Nottinghamshire
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Huthwaite
Mouth	River Idle
• location	Markham Moor
• coordinates	53°16′6″N 0°56′52″W / 53.26833°N 0.94778°W / 53.26833; -0.94778
Basin features
Tributaries
• left	Sookholme Brook
• right	The Bottoms

v t e River Meden
Legend
River Idle River Poulter River Meden and River Maun A1 bridges, West Drayton disused railway B6387 bridges Bothamsall River Meden weir River Maun A614 Pickin's Bridge Perlethorpe Thoresby Lake A616 bridge Budby Welbeck Colliery freight line Warsop water mill A60 Church Rd Warsop Warsop mill pond Sookholme Brook Shirebrook freight line The Bottoms B6407 Sookholme Road Sookholme Brook sources Robin Hood Line Pleasley Vale Mill 3 mill pond Pleasley Vale Mill 2 Pleasley Vale Mill 1 mill pond dismantled railway A617 bridge Pleasley Pleasley mill and sluice mill pond from Car Ponds, Hardwick Hall stream stream Skegby B6014 Fackley Rd, Stanton Hill dismantled railway springs

The River Meden is a river in Nottinghamshire, England. Its source lies just north of Huthwaite, near the Derbyshire border, and from there it flows north east through Pleasley and Warsop before merging temporarily with the River Maun near Bothamsall. The rivers divide after a short distance and go on separately to a point near Markham Moor where they once more combine to form the River Idle.

The river was a source of water power for mills in Pleasley Vale from the 1760s until the 1980s. Three huge cotton mills and their associated mill ponds still dominate the Vale. The buildings were bought by Bolsover District Council in 1992, and have become a centre for light industry. On a much smaller scale was the water mill at Warsop, which still retains much of its internal machinery.