Silver Burn

{{Short description|River on the Isle of Man}}

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The Silver Burn or Silverburn River (Manx: Awin Rosien) is a small river, about {{convert|5|mi|spell=in|sigfig=1}} long, on the Isle of Man which rises near the South Barrule and flows south. It passes St Mark's and in its lower reaches it flows under the Monks' Bridge at Ballasalla, and reaches the sea at Castletown harbour. Just above Ballasalla, the burn runs through wooded Silverdale Glen, a site which the Manx National Trust acquired in 1966.{{Cite web|url=http://www.gov.im/mnh/heritage/countryside/lowersilverdale.xml|title=Home | Manx National Heritage : Celebrating the Isle of Man's History}}

The section from the A3 south to the A7 in Ballasalla makes up the Silverdale Conservation Area, one of Isle of Man's historic districts, and includes Silverdale Glen Cafe, Monk's Bridge, and Rushen Abbey's ruins.{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.im/media/633089/silverdaleconservationarea.pdf |title=Silverdale Conservation Area |date=1993|accessdate=11 December 2020}} (map){{cite report|url=https://www.gov.im/media/633197/silverdaleappraisalwithpicsv2.pdf |title=(Draft) Silverdale and Ballasalla, Malew Preliminary character appraisal |author=Patricia A. Tutt |date= January 2010 |publisher=Isle of Man}}

The Silver Burn is joined by the Awin Ruy, a small left-bank tributary, immediately north of Ballasalla.Isle of Man: Public rights of way and Outdoor Leisure map (South sheet) (7th edn) 1995, Dept. of Local Government and the Environment, Between Ballasalla and Castletown, the Isle of Man Railway runs parallel and close to the river, and the southernmost part of the Millennium Way also follows the river here.