Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Derwent

Derwent, river, Yorkshire; rises on Sleights Moor, North-Riding, 6 miles S. of Whitby, and flows S. to the Ouse at Barmby-on-the-Marsh; is 57 miles long, and is navigable to Malton.


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

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Feature Description: "river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Yorkshire AncC

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