Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Foss Dyke

Foss Dyke, artificial water cut, mid. Lincolnshire, from river Trent at Torksey to river Witham, near Lincoln; it drains the surrounding level, and vessels are brought by it from the Trent to Lincoln.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "artificial water cut"   (ADL Feature Type: "canals")
Administrative units: Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Fosdyke

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