Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Blackwater

Blackwater, river, W. Essex; rises near Saffron Walden, and flows to the North Sea at Mersea island, 40 miles long. It bears the name of the Pant for some distance of its course.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

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Feature Description: "river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Essex AncC

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