The River Tean is a small river whose course is entirely within the
English county
The counties of England are areas used for different purposes, which include administrative, geographical, cultural and political demarcation. The term "county" is defined in several ways and can apply to similar or the same areas used by each ...
of
Staffordshire
Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...
.
[OS Explorer Map 259: ''Derby: Uttoxeter, Ashbourne and Cheadle''. .]
Description
This short river is a tributary of the
River Dove; it is just from its source at
Dilhorne
Dilhorne is an ancient parish and village in Staffordshire, three miles from Cheadle and six miles from Stoke-on-Trent. The village is within the Staffordshire Moorlands area.
Historically the village has been in the Parish of Dilhorne and t ...
[Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Dilhorne]
. ''A Vision of Britain Through Time''. University of Portsmouth, Department of Geography. Retrieved 24 April 2013. to its confluence with the Dove east of
Uttoxeter
Uttoxeter ( , ) is a market town in the East Staffordshire district in the county of Staffordshire, England. It is near to the Derbyshire county border. It is situated from Burton upon Trent, from Stafford, from Stoke-on-Trent, from De ...
. The river flows generally in a southeasterly direction.
References
Rivers of Staffordshire
1Tean
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