Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WREKIN (The)

WREKIN (The), a craggy trap mountain in the E of Salop; 2½ miles SW of Wellington. It is 1,320 feet high; it figures conspicuously in a great extent of landscape; and it commands a magnificent prospect.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a craggy trap mountain"   (ADL Feature Type: "mountains")
Administrative units: Shropshire AncC
Place names: THE WREKIN     |     WREKIN     |     WREKIN THE
Place: Wrekin

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