Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BLACKWATER (The)

BLACKWATER (The), a river of Dorset and Hants. It rises near Cranborne, in Dorset, and runs 15 miles south-south-eastward to the Stour, a little above Christchurch, in Hants.


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

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

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