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The River Tawd flows through Skelmersdale and Lathom in West Lancashire.

Tawd Bridge carried Ormskirk Road, the main arterial road from Wigan to Ormskirk and Southport. This is well known to Upholland locals as the place where highwayman George Lyons held up his victims during the 18th century. Today, the river flows through the middle of Skelmersdale in large culverts. It emerges near the town's shopping centre, the Concourse, and flows into a country park and Tawd Vale Adventure Centre, a Scout campsite owned and operated by Merseyside Scouts, on the site of the 19th and early 20th century colliery. Parts of the river are a county biological heritage site.

It is a tributary of the River Douglas which it joins in Lathom.

Water quality

The Environment Agency measure 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. Chemical status, which compares the concentrations of various chemicals against known safe concentrations, is rated good or fail.^[1]

The water quality of the River Tawd was as follows in 2016. Reasons for the quality being less than good include physical modification of the channel and some sewage discharge.

Section	Ecological Status	Chemical Status	Overall Status	Length	Catchment	Channel
Tawd^[2]	Moderate	Good	Moderate	7.8 miles (12.6 km)	11.88 square miles (30.8 km²)	heavily modified

Tributaries

Slate Brook
Grimshaw Brook

References

^ "Glossary (see Biological quality element; Chemical status; and Ecological status)". Catchment Data Explorer. Environment Agency. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
^ "Tawd". Catchment Data Explorer. Environment Agency. Retrieved 1 August 2018.

v t e Rivers and watercourses of Lancashire
Rivers	Blakewater Brock Brun Calder (Ribble) Calder (Wyre) Chor Cocker Conder Darwen Don Douglas Dunsop Greta Grizedale Hindburn Hyndburn Hodder Irwell Keer Laneshaw Lostock Loud Lune Ogden Ribble Roddlesworth Roeburn Spodden Tawd Wenning Wyre Yarrow
Canals	Lancaster Leeds & Liverpool Ribble Link
Others	Artle Beck Bashall Brook Black Brook Bradshaw Brook Broad Fleet Colne Water Dinckley Brook Eagley Brook Earby Beck Freckleton Pool Green Brook Green Withins Brook Hyndburn Brook Langden Brook Leck Beck Limy Water Mearley Brook Naden Brook Pendle Water Pendleton Brook Sabden Brook Savick Brook Skirden Beck Stock Beck Stydd Brook Trawden Brook Walverden Water Wanless Water Whitewell Brook Wycoller Beck

v t e Geography of West Lancashire
Towns	Ormskirk Skelmersdale
Civil parishes	Aughton Bickerstaffe Bispham Burscough Dalton Downholland Great Altcar Halsall Hesketh-with-Becconsall Hilldale Lathom Lathom South Newburgh North Meols Parbold Rufford Scarisbrick Simonswood Tarleton Up Holland Wrightington
Other villages and hamlets	Andertons Mill Appley Bridge Banks Barrow Nook Barton Bispham Green Downholland Cross Drummersdale Haskayne Hesketh Bank Holmes Holmeswood Hoscar Hundred End Hunger Hill Mere Brow Roby Mill Shirdley Hill Sollom Tarlscough Westhead Wrightington Bar
Topography	Leeds and Liverpool Canal Martin Mere (WWT Martin Mere) Mere Sands Wood River Douglas River Tawd West Lancashire Coastal Plain

53°36′23″N 2°47′34″W / 53.6065°N 2.7927°W / 53.6065; -2.7927

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