Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Mole

Mole, river, Sussex and Surrey; rises in Tilgate Forest, Sussex, and flows NW. past Dorking, Leatherhead, Cobham, and Esher, to the Thames at East Moulsey, opposite Hampton Court; is 30 miles long.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Sussex AncC
Place: Mole Valley

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