Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LYNHER (THE)

LYNHER (THE), a river of Cornwall. It rises in the Alternon hills, near Brown Willy mountain; runs about 17 miles south-eastward, past Callington, to Landrake; begins there to be estuarial, with the appearance of a lake; proceeds about 4 miles southward, sending off branches toward St. Germans; and then goes about 5 miles eastward, with increasing expansion, to the Hamoaze below Saltash.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Cornwall AncC
Place names: LYNHER     |     LYNHER THE     |     THE LYNHER

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