Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Lea

Lea.-- river, Bedford, Herts, Essex, and Middlesex; rises near Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire, flows SE. through Herts, then S. along the boundary between Essex and Middlesex to the Thames near Blackwall, and is 46 miles long.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Bedfordshire AncC

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