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Rede.-- (or Reed), river, Northumberland; rises at Beds wire, under Carter Fell, in the Cheviots, and flows 21 miles SE. through Redesdale to the North Tyne at Reedsmouth ry. sta.; one of the last Border skirmishes took place at Redswire in 1575.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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Feature Description: | "river" (ADL Feature Type: "rivers") |
Administrative units: | Northumberland AncC |
Place names: | REDE | REDE OR REED | REED |
Place: | Redesdale |
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