North Esk

English

Proper noun

North Esk

1. A river in Angus council area and Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, which flows into the North Sea.
   • 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8:

     The sight of them [the Grampians] as we crossed the viaduct over the North Esk I am not likely to forget. After a night of snow, they hung wraith-like across the sky, exquisitely beautiful in the greyness of winter dawn.

2. A river in Midlothian council area, Scotland, a branch of the River Esk, East Lothian.
3. A river in northern Tasmania, Australia, which joins the Tamar.

Related terms

• South Esk