Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Calder

Calder, affluent of river Aire, NE. Lancashire and West-Riding Yorkshire; rises S. of Burnley and flows E. to the Aire at Castleford; 45 miles long.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "affluent"   (ADL Feature Type: "streams")
Administrative units: Lancashire AncC       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Calderdale

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