Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TYNE (The South)

TYNE (The South), a river of Cumberland and Northumberland; rising on the mountains to the E of Crossfell; running about 19 miles north-north-westward and northward, past Alston and Lambley, to Haltwhistle; and going thence about 14 miles eastward, past Bardon-Mill and Haydon-Bridge, to a confluence with the North Tyne, 1 mile WNW of Hexham. It receives the Allen near Ridley Hall; and it is followed by the Alston railway from Alston to Haltwhistle, and by the Newcastle and Carlisle railway onward from Haltwhistle.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Cumberland AncC       Northumberland AncC
Place names: THE SOUTH TYNE     |     TYNE     |     TYNE THE SOUTH

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