Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CROUCH (The)

CROUCH (The), a river of Essex. It rises 3½ miles ESE of Brentwood; and runs about 24 miles eastward, past Wickford, Fambridge, Cricksea, and Wallasey island, chiefly through a marshy tract, to the sea at Foulness.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Essex AncC
Place names: CROUCH     |     CROUCH THE     |     THE CROUCH

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