Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TOVE, or Tow (The)

TOVE, or Tow (The), a river of Northampton; rising near Sulgrave; running about 13 miles east-by-north-ward, past Wappenham, Slapton, and Towcester, to the neighbourhood of Alderton; and going thence about 5½ miles, south-south-eastward, chiefly along the county boundary, to the Ouse 1½ mile NE of Stony-Stratford.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Northamptonshire AncC
Place names: THE TOVE     |     THE TOW     |     TOVE     |     TOVE OR TOW THE     |     TOW

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