River Tavy
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River Tavy
The Tavy is a river on Dartmoor, Devon, England. The name derives from the Brythonic root "Taff", the original meaning of which has now been lost.[1] It has given its name to the town of Tavistock and the villages of Mary Tavy and Peter Tavy. It is a tributary of the River Tamar and has as its own tributaries:
At Tavistock it feeds a canal running to Morwellham Quay.
Its mouth it is crossed by the Tavy Bridge which carries the Tamar Valley railway line.
The river is navigable inland as far as Lopwell, about a 9-mile (14 km) journey from North Corner Quay at Devonport, and river transport was an important feature of the local farming, mining, tourism and forestry economies.[2][3]
Bibliography
- Armstrong, Robin (1985) The Painted Stream, London: Dent ISBN 0-460-04702-7
References
- ^ Ekwall, Eilert (1928). English river-names. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p. 252. OCLC 463242368.
- ^ Admiralty (2000). SC871 Rivers Tamar, Lynher and Tavy (Map). D inset.
- ^ "Welcome to Lopwell". Plymouth City Council. http://www.plymouth.gov.uk/lopwellpanel.pdf. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
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