Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BOX RIVER

BOX RIVER, a stream of the NW of Wilts. It rises on the border of Gloucester, N of Marshfield; runs 4 ½ miles eastward, past West Keynton, and across Akemanstreet, to Castle-Combe; then goes 6 miles southward, past Slaughterford and Ewridge, to Box village; then goes 3 miles south-westward, somewhat parallel with the western railway, to the river Avon at Bathford.


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

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Feature Description: "a stream"   (ADL Feature Type: "streams")
Administrative units: Wiltshire AncC

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