English: River Tees meander The Tees is cutting a meander southwards, leaving a flat point bar occupied by pasture, in contrast to the wooded steep banks over most of this stretch where the river has cut down a considerable distance below the wide terrace from the edge of which this photo was taken. To the left of the photo, the river flows below a steep south bank until sharply deflected by an even steeper rocky bank on the north shore, where the river enters quite a confined section of valley.