Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for STIFFKEY (The)

STIFFKEY (The), a river of Norfolk; rising near Hindolveston, and running about 20 miles circuitously, past Great Snoring, the Barshams, the Walsinghams, the Warhams, and Stiffkey, to the North Sea, 4¾ miles E of Wells.


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

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

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