Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Don

Don, river, West-Riding Yorkshire; rises on moors near the Cheshire border, and flows SE. to Sheffield, thence NE. past Rotherham, Doncaster, and Thorne to the Ouse at Goole; is 70 miles long.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Yorkshire AncC
Place: Don Valley

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