Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TERN (The)

TERN (The), a river of Salop; rising near the meeting-point with Cheshire and Stafford; and running about 30 miles, south-south-westward, past Market-Drayton, Stoke-upon-Tern, Sleap, and Longdon, to the Severn at Atcham. Its chief affluent is the Roden.


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

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

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