Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DARWEN (The)

DARWEN (The), a river of Lancashire. It rises near Rumblesmoor; and runs 16 miles westward, past Blackburn, to the Ribble and Preston.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Lancashire AncC
Place names: DARWEN     |     DARWEN THE     |     THE DARWEN
Place: Darwen

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