Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Cherwell

Cherwell, affluent of river Thames, Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire; rises at Charwelton in Northamptonshire, and flows S. to the Thames in vicinity of Oxford; 30 miles long.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "affluent"   (ADL Feature Type: "streams")
Administrative units: Northamptonshire AncC       Oxfordshire AncC
Place: Cherwell

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