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ANTON (The), a river of Hants. It rises among the chalk hills in the neighbourhood of Penton-Mewsey; runs 7 miles south-eastward, past Andover, to a junction with the Test in the vicinity of Wherwell; and goes thence 17 miles southward, past Stockbridge and Rom sey, to the head of Southampton water. See Andover.
(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: | Hampshire AncC |
Place names: | ANTON | ANTON THE | THE ANTON |
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