A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
ROTHER (The), a river of Sussex and Kent; rising near Rotherfield, in Sussex; running about 16 miles east-ward, past Scotchfords-Bridge, Etchingham, and Roberts-bridge, to the boundary with Kent near Bodiam; tracing that boundary, about 9 miles east-south-eastward, to the vicinity of Craven-Bridge; and going thence, about6 miles southward, within Sussex, and past Rye, to these a in the vicinity of Winchelsea. It formerly wentright eastward, from the vicinity of Craven-Bridge, through Romney Marsh to the sea at New Romney; it was driven from that course by a great storm, in the time of Edward I.; it was navigable before its change of course, up to Etchingham; and it was ascended in 893 by Hastings, one of whose barges was found in 1822 in Northiam.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a river" (ADL Feature Type: "rivers") |
| Administrative units: | Kent AncC Sussex AncC |
| Place names: | ROTHER | ROTHER THE | THE ROTHER |
| Place: | Rother |
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