Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Rothay

Rothay, river, Westmorland; rises on Dunmail Raise, and flows 8 miles SE. through Grasmere Lake and Rydal Water to the Brathay, near its influx to Windermere; in SW. vicinity of Ambleside, near Rothay Bridge, is Rothay Bank, seat.


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

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Feature Description: "river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Westmorland AncC

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