Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CHURN (The)

CHURN (The), a river of Gloucester; the northern headstream of the Isis or Thames. It rises among the Cotswolds, 3¼ miles S by E of Cheltenham; and runs about 16 miles south-south-eastward, past Colesborne North Cerney, Cirencester, and South Cerney, to a confluence with the southern headstream in the western vicinity of Cricklade.


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

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

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