River Yeo

The Yeo may be one of several rivers of that name in Devon and Somerset.

The name "Yeo" is from the Old English word ea, meaning simply "river"’.

The Yeo that enters the Parrett at Langport also bears the name "Ivel", which philologists have reckoned to be derived from an Old Welsh word gifl, meaning 'forked river' (it is also the Old English for "morsel", pehaps an unlikely origin), and even suggesting that "Yeo" in that one case may be derived from "Ivel".

Somerset

• The River Yeo (Parrett), which joins the River Parrett near Langport. This river flows through Sherborne in Dorset, and the Somerset towns of Yeovil, Yeovilton and Ilchester
• The Congresbury Yeo, which runs from Compton Martin to the Bristol Channel near Kingston Seymour. The Yeo Valley company which produces organic yoghurt was originally based close to this river
• The Cheddar Yeo, which rises in Gough's Cave in the Cheddar Gorge, and is a tributary of the Somerset Axe
• The Mark Yeo, another tributary of the River Axe
• The Lox Yeo River, another tributary of the River Axe
• The Blind Yeo
• The Land Yeo
• The Middle Yeo. These last three all drain the moors between Clevedon and Tickenham to the Bristol Channel

Devon

• The River Yeo (Barnstaple), also known as the Barnstaple Yeo, which joins the River Taw at Barnstaple
• The River Yeo (Lapford), also known as the Lapford Yeo, which joins the River Taw at Lapford
• The River Yeo, Molland, also known as the Molland Yeo, on the southern edge of Exmoor, which is a tributary of the River Mole (itself a tributary of the River Taw)
• The River Yeo (Creedy), which joins the River Creedy north west of Exeter, having passed south of the town of Crediton
• The River Yeo (Torridge), which joins the River Torridge near Bideford, having started near Hartland Point in western Devon