A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
PARRET (The), a river of Dorset and Somerset. Itrises near Cheddington, in Dorset; runs 2 miles north-ward, through Perrot parish, to the boundary with Somerset; and goes northward and north-westward, within Somerset, past South Petherton, Muchelney, Langport, Boroughbridge, and Bridgewater, to Bristol channel at Stert point. It makes a total run of about 35 miles; itreceives the Isle at Muchelney, the Yeo at Langport, and the Tone at Boroughbridge; it is navigable up to Lang-port; it expands, in its lower reaches, into considerable estuary; and it is stemmed, in the estuarial part, by atide of 36 feet, sometimes rushing with a "bore" of 6feet. It was known to the Saxons as Pedrida.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a river" (ADL Feature Type: "rivers") |
| Administrative units: | Dorset AncC Somerset AncC |
| Place names: | PARRET | PARRET THE | PEDRIDA | THE PARRET |
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