Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MEASE (THE)

MEASE (THE), a river of Leicester, Derby, and Warwick. It rises a little E of Ashby-de-la-Zouch; runs about 5½ miles south-south-westward, and about 9 westward, but eventually west-north-westward, to the Trent in the neighbourhood of Croxall; and traces, at intervals, the county-boundaries.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Derbyshire Ancient County       Leicestershire Ancient County       Warwickshire Ancient County
Place names: MEASE     |     MEASE THE     |     THE MEASE

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