page_title: River Eye, Leicestershire
section_title: Overview
hierarchical_section_title: River Eye, Leicestershire / Overview
caption_attribution_description: English: River Eye, Coston Leicestershire. The River Eye widens out for the ford on Sproxton Lane. The water level marker post has a top depth of 6 feet. The photograph was taken from the footbridge which takes the public footpath over the river.
context_page_description: The River Eye is a river in north-eastern Leicestershire that becomes the Wreake.
  The Eye rises at Bescaby, about six miles north-east of Melton Mowbray. It flows east towards Saltby, where it turns south and flows past Sproxton, Coston and Garthorpe. At Saxby it turns west and flows by Stapleford, Freeby, Wyfordby, Brentingby and Thorpe Arnold. At Swan's Nest it enters Melton Mowbray, where it flows under bridges at Burton Road and Leicester Road. It then passes Sysonby, where, at Sysonby Lodge it changes its name to the River Wreake, which flows into the River Soar. Its full journey is about 13 miles.
context_section_description: The river is neither wide nor fast flowing, although it does flood periodically. It drifts through the gentle rolling countryside of north-east Leicestershire by fields bounded by hawthorn hedges. There is very little woodland in the area; what's there is largely man-made in the form of fox coverts. Farming in the district is largely pastoral, with the grassland given over to sheep and cows, the traditional beasts of local agriculture. Stilton and Red Leicester cheeses originally came from the village and farm dairies in the Eye basin.
caption: The Eye near Coston.
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