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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described The Wash like this:
WASH (The), the estuary of the rivers Ouse, Nen, Welland, and Witham, in Norfolk and Lincoln. It has a width of about 15 miles a short distance below the influxes of the rivers; it contracts thence, over a distance of about 15 miles, to a width of 10 miles opposite Hunstanton; and it gradually expands thence, over a distance of about 4½ miles, to immergence in the North sea. ...
It is greatly choked with sands, or interspersed with large shoals; it includes deeper portions, called the Lynn deeps and the Boston deeps; it has intricate channels, with from 4 to 12 fathoms, buoyed; and, since 1850, it has been invaded by an extensive land reclamation, noticed in our article on Lynn.
The Wash is now part of KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK District. Click here for graphs and data of how KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK has changed over two centuries. For statistics about The Wash itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of The Wash, in Kings Lynn and West Norfolk and Lincolnshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24630
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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