Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ROTHER (The)

ROTHER (The), a river of Hants and Sussex; rising near Priors-Dean in Hants; and running about 24 miles eastward, past Petersfield, Midhurst, and Selham, to the Arun in the vicinity of Stopham. It is navigable up to Midhurst.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Hampshire AncC       Sussex AncC
Place names: ROTHER     |     ROTHER THE     |     THE ROTHER
Place: Rother

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