River Tavy
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The Tavy (Template:IPAc-en) is a river on Dartmoor, Devon, England. The name derives from the Brythonic root Script error: No such module "Lang"., once thought to mean 'dark' but now generally understood to mean 'to flow'.[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: Collybrooke, River Burn, River Wallabrooke, River Lumburn, and River Walkham. At Tavistock it feeds a canal running to Morwellham Quay.
Its mouth is crossed by the Tavy Bridge which carries the Tamar Valley railway line.
The river is navigable inland as far as Lopwell, where a weir marks the normal tidal limit, about a Script error: No such module "convert". journey from North Corner Quay at Devonport.[2] River transport was an important feature of the local farming, mining, tourism, and forestry economies.[3][4]
The Queen's Harbour Master for Plymouth[5] is responsible for managing navigation on the River Tavy up to the normal tidal limit.[6]
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Lopwell weir, highest point of navigation
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See also
- Tamar–Tavy Estuary SSSI
References
- Armstrong, Robin (1985). The Painted Stream. London: Dent. Template:ISBN.
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- ↑ Queen's Harbour Master Plymouth
- ↑ The Dockyard Port of Plymouth Order 1999
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