Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TYNE (The North)

TYNE (The North), a river of Northumberland; rising in the debateable land at the boundary with Scotland; and running about 32 miles south-eastward, past Plashetts, Falstone, Bellingham, Wark, and Chollerton, to a confluence with the South Tyne, 1 mile WNW of Hexham. It receives many small tributaries above Bellingham; receives the Reed 2 miles below Bellingham; and is followed, down nearly all its course, by the Border Counties railway.


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

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

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