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