Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Kennet

Kennet.-- river, Wilts and Berks; rises near Marlborough Downs, flows E. past Hungerford to the Thames at Reading, is 44 miles long, and affords excellent trout and eel fishing.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Wiltshire AncC
Place: Kennet

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