Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for STOUR (The)

STOUR (The), a river of Oxford, Gloucester, and Warwick; rising near Tadmarton in Oxford; running westward to Burmington, at the boundary between Gloucester and Warwick; and proceeding, chiefly along that boundary, north-by-westward, to the Avon, 1¾ mile SSW of Stratford. Its length of course is about 20 miles.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Gloucestershire Ancient County       Oxfordshire Ancient County       Warwickshire Ancient County
Place names: STOUR     |     STOUR THE     |     THE STOUR

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