 The river now meanders in a northerly direction towards The Wash.It then switches into a man-made watercourse that directs it southward through Wootton Marsh towards Vinegar Middle where the river finally runs into the river Great Ouse estuary at Lynn Channel.In the hamlet of Babingley, near the river, Saint Felix of Burgundy is said to have landed c.630 AD to introduce Christianity to East Anglia.