North Walla Brook

• Source: Near the Warren House Inn
• Course: North, then east, towards the River Bovey
• Not to be confused with: Walla Brook (Babeny), which also rises near the Warren House Inn but flows south

North Walla Brook starts near the Warren House Inn, the same place as the other Walla Brook that runs south to the East Dart, but it flows the opposite way: north and then east towards the River Bovey. It is one of four Dartmoor streams called Walla Brook.

Its valley is on the north eastern side of the moor, around North Bovey and Lakeland, where open moor gives way to small fields. Photographers record it from the Two Moors Way and from the track to Lakeland Farm, with Kes Tor and Cosdon Hill on the skyline.

Very little has been written about it. Wikipedia gives only its course, so there is no confirmed length or grid reference for the source here. To tell it from its namesakes, remember that it heads for the Bovey, while the Walla Brook near Babeny joins the East Dart, the one at Hangingstone Hill joins the North Teign and the one at Doe Tor joins the Lyd.

This is a location on Dartmoor that has a namesake. Read more about this: Dartmoor Places With the Same Name