Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DORE (The)

DORE (The), a river of Hereford. It rises on the west border of the county, 2½ miles E of Hay; and runs 12 miles south-eastward, through the Golden Vale, past Dorstone, Peterchurch, and Abbey-Dore, to the river Munnow, near Pontrilas.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Herefordshire AncC
Place names: DORE     |     DORE THE     |     THE DORE
Place: Dore

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