Badgworthy Water
The Badgworthy Water is a small river which flows through Malmsmead on Exmoor, forming part of the border between Devon and Somerset. Below Malmsmead it merges with Oare Water to become the East Lyn River.[1][2][3]
The river rises on the high slopes of Exmoor, where several streams off the Somerset slopes join the Hoccombe Water which marks the county border, uniting to flow north as the Badgworthy Water for three miles until the River Oare joins it to create the East Lyn River just a mile from the sea coast. The river marks the county border between Devon to the west and Somerset to the east for the whole of that way.
About the valley
On the banks of the river are the remains of a few dwellings which formed a mediæval village. The last resident left in the 1820s.[4][5]
The 17th century packhorse Malmsmead Bridge crosses Badgworthy Water, alongside an even older ford.[6]
The valley is associated with the book Lorna Doone by R D Blackmoore,[1][7][8] and is known today, with its tributary valleys, as 'Doone Valley', after that in the novel.
The Badgworthy Water is used for canoeing and includes grade 2 and 3 rapids.[9] walking[10] There is fly fishing on the river too.[11]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Badgworthy Water on Everything Exmoor
- ↑ "Badgworthy Water — Hoccombe Water to Malmsmead". UK Rivers Guidebook. http://www.ukriversguidebook.co.uk/rivers/england/south-west/badgworthy-water-hoccombe-water-to-malmsmead. Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- ↑ "Badgworthy Water". Somerset Rivers. http://somersetrivers.org/index.php?module=Content&func=view&pid=34. Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- ↑ "MDE1258 - Deserted mediæval settlement at Badgworthy Water". Exmoor National Park. https://www.exmoorher.co.uk/hbsmr-web/Record.aspx?UID=MDE1258-Deserted-Mediæval-Settlement-at-Badgworthy-Water. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
- ↑ "Badgworthy". University of Hull. https://www.dmv.hull.ac.uk/dmvDetail.cfm?dbkey=3152&county=true. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
- ↑ Images of England — details from listed building database (265451)
- ↑ "A walk in Lorna Doone country". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/outdoors/walks/lorna_doone.shtml. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
- ↑ "Walk 1263 - The Doone Valley from Malmsmead". Walking Britain. http://www.walkingbritain.co.uk/walk-1263-description. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
- ↑ "Badgworthy Water - Hoccombe Water to Malmsmead". UK Rivers Guidebook. http://www.ukriversguidebook.co.uk/rivers/england/south-west/badgworthy-water-hoccombe-water-to-malmsmead. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
- ↑ "Walk 1263 - The Doone Valley from Malmsmead". Walking Britain. http://www.walkingbritain.co.uk/walk-1263-description. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
- ↑ Hart, Nick. "Bowled over by Badgworthy". Hart Fly Fishing. http://hartflyfishing.blogspot.co.uk/2008/05/bowled-over-by-badgworthy.html. Retrieved 2 October 2016.