Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FOULNESS, or Fooner (The)

FOULNESS, or Fooner (The), a river of E. R. Yorkshire. It rises in the Wolds, about 4 miles N of Market Weighton; and pursues a circuitous conrse, south-west-ward, south-eastward, and southward, to the Humber at Broomfleet.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Yorkshire AncC
Place names: FOONER     |     FOULNESS     |     FOULNESS OR FOONER THE     |     THE FOONER     |     THE FOULNESS

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