Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Coquet

Coquet, river, N. Northumberland; rises among the Cheviots, 2½ miles W. of Woolbist Law, and flows NE. past Alwinton and Rothbury to North Sea below Warkworth, opposite Coquet isl.; is 40 m. long, is navigable to Warkworth, and is a fair salmon and trouting stream.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Northumberland AncC
Place: Coquet

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