Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Coquet

Coquet, a river briefly connected with Oxnam parish, E Roxburghshire. It rises among the Cheviots, close to the English Border, and, following it for ¾ mile, turns into Northumberland, there to run 35 miles to the sea at Warkworth, opposite Coquet island.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Roxburghshire ScoCnty
Place: Coquet

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