Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Axe

Axe.-- river, mid. Somerset; rises on Mendip Hills, flows NW. to the Bristol Channel at Uphill Bay, and is 25 m. long.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

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Feature Description: "river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Somerset Ancient County

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