Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Tees

Tees, river; rises on Cross Fell, Cumberland, and flows E., following the boundary between Cumberland and Durham on the N., and Westmorland and Yorkshire on the S., to the North Sea between Hartlepool and Redcar; is 70 miles long, with estuary of 5 miles; is navigable to Stockton, and tidal to Yarm.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: County Durham AncC       Cumberland AncC       Westmorland AncC
Place: Teesside

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