Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DOVEY, or Dyfi (The)

DOVEY, or Dyfi (The), a river of Wales. It rises on the east side of Arran-Fowddy, in Merioneth; goes about 30 miles southward and south-westward, across a wing of Montgomery, along the boundary between Merioneth and Cardigan, and past Dinas-Mowddy and Machynlleth, to the Irish sea at Aberdovey. The last 6½ miles of it are estuary. Dovey Castle, 5 miles from Machynlleth, is the seat of George Jeffreys, Esq.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Merionethshire AncC
Place names: DOVEY     |     DOVEY OR DYFI THE     |     DYFI     |     THE DOVEY     |     THE DYFI

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