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SWALE (The), a river of N. R. Yorkshire; rising on the mountains at the boundary with Westmoreland, 4 miles SE of Kirkby-Stephen; and running eastward and south eastward, past Muker, Reeth, Richmond, Catterick, Maunby, Topcliffe, and Brafferton, to the Ure, 1 mile E of Aldborough. Its length of run is about 60 miles; its basin down to the vicinity of Richmond is a romantic upland vale, called Swaledale; its tributaries there are numerous, but all small; and its chief tributary afterwards is the Wiske.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a river" (ADL Feature Type: "rivers") |
| Administrative units: | Yorkshire Ancient County |
| Place names: | SWALE | SWALE THE | THE SWALE |
| Place: | Swaledale |
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