Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for AXE (The)

AXE (The), a river of Somerset. It rises on the Mendip hills, 2 miles NW of Wells; and runs about 20 miles north-westward, past Axbridge, to the Bristol channel at Uphill bay. It is a good trouting stream.


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

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

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