Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WILEY (The)

WILEY (The), a river of Wilts; rising near Kingston-Deverill; running 6 miles, north-north-eastward, to the vicinity of Warminster; and going thence about 16 miles south-eastward, past Heytesbury, Stockfont, and Wishford, to a confluence with the Nadder in the vicinity of Wilton.


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

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

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