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AIRE (The), a river of Yorkshire. It rises in wild moors near Malham, in the north-west quarter of the west riding; runs about a mile underground to Malham cove; then goes ESE, past Skipton and Bingley, to Leeds; then assumes a more easterly direction, till below Snaith; then turns to the NE and goes to the Ouse, a little below Armin, 3 miles SW of Howden. Its en tire length is about 70 miles. It is joined at Leeds by the Liverpool canal, which follows it thither from Gargrave; at Castleford, by the river Calder; and at Birkin, by the Selby canal.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a river" (ADL Feature Type: "rivers") |
Administrative units: | Yorkshire AncC |
Place names: | AIRE | AIRE THE | THE AIRE |
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