River Piddle
 The River Piddle or Trent or North River is a small rural Dorset river which rises next to Alton Pancras church. Alton Pancras was originally named Awultune a Saxon name meaning the village at the source of a river. The river's name has Germanic origins and has had various spellings over the years. In 966 AD it was called the 'Pidelen' and on the church tower at Piddletrenthide—the first village to which it gives its name—it is spelled 'Pydel'.