A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Humber.-- estuary of rivers Ouse (114 miles) and Trent (147 miles), on E. coast of England, separating the counties of Lincoln and York; it is 38 miles long, from 1 to 7¼ miles broad, flows E. then SE. to the North Sea, and drains an area of 9550 square miles; its mouth is narrowed to 5 miles by Spurn Head promontory, the SE. extremity of Yorkshire; lights are at Spurn, Bull Sand, Grimsby, and Killingholm.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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| Feature Description: | "estuary" (ADL Feature Type: "estuaries") |
| Administrative units: | Lincolnshire AncC |
| Place: | Humber |
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