Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BARLE, or Barley (The)

BARLE, or Barley (The), a river of the western border of Somerset. It rises in Exmoor forest; and runs about 16 miles south-eastward, past Simons-Bath, Withy poole, Hawkridge, and Dulverton, to a confluence with the Exe, 2¼ miles below Dulverton.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Somerset AncC
Place names: BARLE     |     BARLE OR BARLEY THE     |     BARLEY     |     THE BARLE     |     THE BARLEY

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