Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LEAVEN, or LEVEN (THE)

LEAVEN, or LEVEN (THE), a river of N. R. Yorkshire. It rises near Commondale Moor; and runs windingly westward, about 20 miles, past Ayton, Stokesley, and Kirk-Leavington, to the Tees below Yarm.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Yorkshire AncC
Place names: LEAVEN     |     LEAVEN OR LEVEN THE     |     LEVEN     |     THE LEAVEN     |     THE LEVEN

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