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Sandy Hole Pool
Rivers & Waterways

Sandy Hole Pool

Dartmoor Forest

A deep pool on the East Dart in the remote northern moor, where the young river narrows through Sandy Hole Pass over a bed of sand and gravel, once deepened to help float cut peat downstream.

Steeperton Brook
Rivers & Waterways

Steeperton Brook

Dartmoor Forest

A remote northern moor brook rising below Steeperton Tor and running down through Taw Marsh to join the young River Taw, deep in the Okehampton range.

Narrator Brook
Rivers & Waterways

Narrator Brook

Meavy

A brook flowing off the flanks of Sheeps Tor through the Burrator woods, past the ruins of Narrator farm, to feed Burrator Reservoir and the River Meavy.

Bala Brook
Rivers & Waterways

Bala Brook

Didworthy

A southern moor brook running down off the high ground near the Avon, past old tramway and mining remains, to join the River Avon in the wooded country above South Brent.

Black-a-ven Brook
Rivers & Waterways

Black-a-ven Brook

Dartmoor Forest

A short northern moor brook flowing down from below East Mill Tor to join the East Okement River at Cullever Steps, a well-known ford and crossing near Belstone.

Dean Burn
Rivers & Waterways

Dean Burn

Rattery

A tumbling brook that rises on Dean Moor and falls through a steep, wooded glen of small waterfalls down to Buckfastleigh, one of the two moorland rivers that shaped the town.

Red-a-ven Brook
Rivers & Waterways

Red-a-ven Brook

Okehampton Hamlets

A northern moor brook rising below High Willhays, the highest ground in southern England, and running down between the tors of the Okehampton range to meet the West Okement near Meldon.

North Teign River
Rivers & Waterways

North Teign River

Gidleigh

A headwater of the River Teign, rising at Teign Head on the high northern moor and running down past Scorhill towards Chagford. On its bank sits the Tolmen Stone, a boulder the water has bored clean through.

River Avon
Rivers & Waterways

River Avon

Dartmoor Forest

The River Avon, also known as the River Aune, is a river in the county of Devon in the southwest of England. It rises in the southern half of Dartmoor National Park in an area of bog to the west of Ryder's Hill. Close to where the river