Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DERWENT (The)

DERWENT (The), a river of Derbyshire. It rises near Barrow-Stones in the High Peak, at the northern extremity of the county; runs 38 miles southward and south-south-eastward, past Hathersage, Chatsworth, Matlock, Cromford, and Belper, to Derby; then goes 8 miles east-south-eastward, to the Trent, near Wilne, at the boundary with Leicestershire. It traverses romantic scenery to Cromford; and flows through fine lowland landscape from Belper to the Trent.


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

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

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