Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Morwellham Quay

Morwellham Quay, on river Tamar, 4 miles SW. of Tavistock, Devon; Morwell Rocks are in the vicinity; Morwell Tunnell, on the Tavistock Canal, is 1¾ mile long; near the S. end of the tunnel is Morwell House, once a huntingseat of the abbots of Tavistock, now a farmhouse.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "quay"   (ADL Feature Type: "piers")
Administrative units: Devon AncC
Place: Morwellham

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