It runs 13.3 kilometres (8.3 mi) east from its source near Felthorpe to its confluence with the River Bure near Wroxham.

[1] The name of the river is probably a back-formation from the name of villages that it flows through.

The village of Horsford has a name meaning "ford that horses can cross", so the river's name may be formed from that.

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