Vedra
Οὐέδρα
Vedra (Οὐέδρα, Ptol. 2.3.6), a river in the N. part of the E. coast of Britannia. The name would lead us to the conclusion that it is the Wear (Camden, p. 944), yet Horsley (p. 103) and others have taken it to be the Tyne.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.