Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DEVERILL, or DiveRill

DEVERILL, or DiveRill, a rivulet of Wilts. It rises on the downs, at the boundary with Somerset, SE of Maiden-Bradley; and runs 7 miles north-north-eastward, through the Deverill parishes, to the Wiley, 1 ½ mile SE of Warminster. It takes its name from diving underground a short distance below its source.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a rivulet"   (ADL Feature Type: "streams")
Administrative units: Wiltshire AncC
Place names: DEVERILL     |     DEVERILL OR DIVERILL     |     DIVERILL

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