A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
WEAVER (The), a river of Cheshire; rising near Burley-Dam, adjacent to Salop; and running about 30 miles, first north-north-eastward, past Nantwich, next northward, past Church-Minshulland Over, then north-north-westward, past Northwich and Weaverham, to the Mersey, 2½ miles below Runcorn. It has long, in its lower reaches, been crowded with flats, conveying salt to Liverpool and other places; it is naturally navigable, for vessels of 200 tons burden, up to Northwich; and, in 1867-8, it was much widened and deepened.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a river" (ADL Feature Type: "rivers") |
| Administrative units: | Cheshire AncC |
| Place names: | THE WEAVER | WEAVER | WEAVER THE |
| Place: | Weaver Vale |
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