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Holy Brook
Rivers & Waterways

Holy Brook

West Buckfastleigh

Holy Brook is a tributary of the River Dart in Devon, England. It rises on the eastern flank of the 495 m (1,624 ft)-high hill of Snowdon on Dartmoor, at grid reference SX678687. It was once a much longer stream, but its headwaters were

Dartmoor quiz
“The only signs of life are the furry inhabitants of the warren, and, perchance, a herd of Dartmoor ponies, wild as the country over which they roam, and a few sheep or cattle grazing on the slopes.”

Who wrote this?

William Crossing. From The Ancient Stone Crosses of Dartmoor and its Borderland (1902).

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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.

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.

North Walla Brook
Rivers & Waterways

North Walla Brook

North Bovey, Moretonhampstead

A stream that rises near the Warren House Inn and runs north then east towards the River Bovey, through a valley on the north east edge of the moor.

O Brook
Rivers & Waterways

O Brook

Dartmoor Forest

The O Brook is a short right-bank tributary of the West Dart River on Dartmoor in Devon, England. It lies near the village of Hexworthy, and the lower part of the stream forms the boundary between the parishes of Holne and Dartmoor Forest.

Oke Tor Bridge
Bridges & Crossings

Oke Tor Bridge

A stone arch bridge over the East Okement River on the track to the Oke Tor lookout, built for the army's Okehampton Artillery Range: span 4.1 m, width 4.3 m.

Rattle Brook
Rivers & Waterways

Rattle Brook

Dartmoor Forest

Rattle Brook is a brook in north Dartmoor in Devon in south-west England. It is situated East of Great Links Tor, and rises by the Rattlebrook Peatworks on remote moorland in the western section of Dartmoor National Park. It flows past

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.

River Ashburn
Rivers & Waterways

River Ashburn

Ashburton

The Ashburn is a river in the Dartmoor moors in Devon in south-west England, flowing through the Ashburton valley to the River