Possible Clues:

• Council site in the 1500s
• River
• River, or less than copious flow
• River at Newark/Stoke
• ___ Canal (connector of lakes Ontario and Huron)
• 16th century church council site
• River council gets most of the torrent
• Last name of Dickens's Little Nell
• England's third-longest river
• Stoke-on- --, England