Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MAUN (THE)

MAUN (THE), a river of Notts; rising near Sutton-in-Ashfield; and running about 12 miles north-eastward, past Mansfield and Edwinstowe, to a confluence with Rainworth water at Ollerston; but sometimes regarded as also the joint stream from Ollerston, 6½ miles northnorth-eastward to the forming of the Idle by confluence with the Meden and the Poulter in the vicinity of Elksley.


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

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

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