Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NIGER (The)

NIGER (The), a rivulet of the N of Norfolk. It rises near Baconsthorpe; makes a circuit of about 5 miles North-westward and south-westward to the neighbourhood of Edgefield; and runs thence about 7 miles north-north-westward to the sea, in the vicinity of Cley.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a rivulet"   (ADL Feature Type: "streams")
Administrative units: Norfolk AncC
Place names: NIGER     |     NIGER THE     |     THE NIGER

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