Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Rede, (or Reed)

Rede.-- (or Reed), river, Northumberland; rises at Beds wire, under Carter Fell, in the Cheviots, and flows 21 miles SE. through Redesdale to the North Tyne at Reedsmouth ry. sta.; one of the last Border skirmishes took place at Redswire in 1575.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Northumberland AncC
Place names: REDE     |     REDE OR REED     |     REED
Place: Redesdale

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