Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ESK (The)

ESK (The), a river of the SW of Cumberland. It rises between Bow fell and Scaw fell; runs 5 miles south-south-westward to Esk-Bridge; goes thence 8 miles, in the same direction, to the sea at Ravenglass; and forms, at its mouth, jointly with the Mite and the Irt, a sinuous, sandy estuary. It receives, on its left, the streamlets of Birker Force and Stanley Force; and, on its right, the stream from Burnmoor tarn.


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

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

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