Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for EYE (The)

EYE (The), a river of Leicestershire. It rises near Saltby, on the E border of the county; and runs, southward and eastward, past Saxby and Melton-Mowbray, to a confluence with the Wreak, at Fairwater meadow. It has been made navigable, by several cuts and deviations, to Melton-Mowbray.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Leicestershire AncC
Place names: EYE     |     EYE THE     |     THE EYE

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