Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TAME (The)

TAME (The), a river of Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Cheshire; rising near Saddleworth; and running about 18 miles south-westward, past Staleybridge, to the Mersey at Stockport.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Cheshire AncC       Lancashire AncC
Place names: TAME     |     TAME THE     |     THE TAME
Place: Tameside

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