Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for YEO (The)

YEO (The), a river of Dorset and Somerset; rising at Seven Sisters' springs, near Milborne-Port; running about 8½ miles west-by-southward, past Sherborne, to the vicinity of Yeovil; and going thence about 15 miles northward and westward, paht Madford and Ilchester, to the Parret at Langport.


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

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

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