A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
MOLE (THE), a river partly of Sussex, but chiefly of Surrey. It is formed by the union of several runnels, issuing from the forest of Tilgate; acquires appreciable Volume within Horley parish, on the S border of Surrey; runs thence north-westward to the vicinity of Dorking; enters there one of the defiles of the great barrier downs which extend across Surrey; traverses a romantic reach through that defile, and past the foot of Boxhill; and proceeds northward, past Leatherhead, with circuitous detour round Cobham, and past the vicinity of Esher, to the Thames opposite Hampton-Court. Its length of course is about 30 miles. Milton calls it the "sullen Mole; ''Thomson calls it the "Silent Mole; ''and Spencer speaks of it as
Mole, that like a nousling mole doth make
His way still underground, till Thames he o'ertake.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a river" (ADL Feature Type: "rivers") |
| Administrative units: | Surrey AncC |
| Place names: | MOLE | MOLE THE | THE MOLE |
| Place: | Mole Valley |
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