Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Tame

Tame, river, Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Cheshire; rises near Saddleworth, and flows 18 miles SW. past Stalybridge to the Mersey at Stockport.


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

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

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