Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ANTON (The)

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))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Hampshire AncC
Place names: ANTON     |     ANTON THE     |     THE ANTON

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