Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for New River

New River, artificial cut, Herts and Middlesex; commences near Ware, is augmented from the river Lea at Broxbourne, has a southward course of 36 miles, and is received into reservoirs at Hornsey and Stoke Newington for the water-supply of the metropolis.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "artificial cut"   (ADL Feature Type: "canals")
Administrative units: Hertfordshire AncC       Middlesex AncC

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