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River Esk (Solway Firth)
River in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For similarly named rivers, see River Esk (disambiguation).
The River Esk (Scottish Gaelic: Easg), also known as the Border Esk[citation needed], is a river that rises in the Scottish region of Dumfries and Galloway before crossing the border to the English county of Cumbria and flowing into the Solway Firth.
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