Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Eden

Eden.-- river, Westmorland and Cumberland; rises on E. border of Westmorland, and flows NW. past Kirkby Stephen, Appleby, Kirkoswald, and Carlisle to Solway Firth at Rockcliffe Marshes; is 65 miles long.


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

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

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