Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FROME (The)

FROME (The), a river of Gloucester. It rises near Brimpsfield; and runs about 16 miles west-south-westward, past Stroud, to the Severn at Framilode Its waters are famed for peculiar qualities in dyeing cloth, especially of a scarlet colour. This river is sometimes called Stroud water.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Gloucestershire AncC
Place names: FROME     |     FROME THE     |     THE FROME

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