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• River Avon
  ...which in Modern Welsh is written "Afon". An early Brythonic Celtic origin of the word and the name ''Avon'' has reconstructed as ''abona''. The most famous of these like-named rivers are:
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• River Yeo (Parrett)
  ...lso known as the '''River Ivel''' or '''River Gascoigne''', is a tributary of the [[River Parrett]] in northern [[Dorset]] and southern [[Somerset]]. ...which it lends a name, before decisively entering Somerset a little south of [[Mudford#Up Mudford|Up Mudford]].
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• Congresbury Yeo
  ...y]], through which it flows, to avoid confusion with other similarly named rivers) is a river which flows through northern [[Somerset]]. This river is one of several rivers called the [[River Yeo]] in Somerset and Devon. The name ''Yeo'' is from the Old English word ''ea'', meaning simply "riv
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• Cheddar Yeo
  [[File:Dam below Cheddar Gorge.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The dam at the bottom of Cheddar Gorge]] After emerging into [[Cheddar Gorge]], the Yeo flows through the village of [[Cheddar]], where it has been used in the past to power mills.
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• Mark Yeo
  ...p?module=Content&func=view&pid=52|title=Mark Yeo River |publisher=Somerset Rivers|accessdate=31 March 2010}}</ref> and may have been canalised in the 13th an ...Mark Yeo is one of several rivers called the [[River Yeo]] in Somerset and Devon, and is known as the Mark Yeo to avoid confusion with the others. The name
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• Lox Yeo
  .../?tag=content;col1 Breeze, A. (2007): Review of ''The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names'']</ref>. [[Category:Rivers of Somerset]]
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• Land Yeo
  ...Mark Yeo is one of several rivers called the [[River Yeo]] in Somerset and Devon, and is known as the Mark Yeo to avoid confusion with the others. The name ...provide drinking water for [[Bristol]]. It then flows through the village of [[Barrow Gurney]] alongside the B3130 road, where it can be seen in millpon
  7 KB (1,192 words) - 08:20, 19 September 2019
• River Yeo (Barnstaple)
  ...e of several rivers of the same name in Devon, including another tributary of the Taw, the [[River Yeo (Lapford)|Lapford Yeo]]. The [[River Yeo|Yeo]] is a common river name in Somerset and Devon, and is from the Old English word ''ea'', meaning simply "river".
  836 B (137 words) - 17:50, 12 August 2014
• River Yeo (Lapford)
  {{county|Devon}} ...adwaters of another [[River Yeo (Creedy)|River Yeo]], which is a tributary of the [[River Creedy]].
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• River Taw
  ...and reaches the [[Bristol Channel]] 45 miles away on the north coast of [[Devon]] at a joint estuary mouth which it shares with the [[River Torridge]]. ...'', approximately 12 miles from the sea. This journey passes through rural Devon, the river flowing through pasture and wooded valleys.
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• River Avon, Devon
  ...orama view on Burgh Island, Devon, England.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The mouth of the River Avon, from Burgh Island]] ...rises in the southern parts of [[Dartmoor]] in an area of bog to the west of [[Ryder's Hill]]. Close to where the river leaves Dartmoor a dam was built
  790 B (134 words) - 23:37, 16 January 2012
• River Forth
  [[File:River Forth course2.png|right|thumb|300px|Course of River Forth]] ...ssachs]] in [[Perthshire]] and runs down to open to the sea in the [[Firth of Forth]]
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• Beaulieu River
  .... Unusually, the entire river, including its bed, is owned by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu. ...w Forest, and flows south-easterly across the forest heaths to the village of [[Beaulieu]]. At Beaulieu the river becomes tidal and once drove a tide mil
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• River Tavy
  ...ver Tavy - geograph.org.uk - 1533352.jpg|thumb|Lopwell weir, highest point of navigation]] ...illages of [[Mary Tavy]] and [[Peter Tavy]]. It is ultimately a tributary of the [[River Tamar]].
  5 KB (815 words) - 21:38, 5 February 2017
• River Exe
  [[File:Map of the River Exe - Exe highlighted.svg|right|thumb|230px|The Exe basin]] ...lows more or less directly due south, so that most of its length lies in [[Devon]].
  6 KB (940 words) - 21:31, 7 September 2018
• River Teign
  ...a river in [[Devon]], flowing from the midst of [[Dartmoor]] to the sea on Devon's east coast, having opened into a long broad estuary. It gives a name to Like many Devon rivers, the Teign rises on [[Dartmoor]], near [[Cranmere Pool]]. Its course on the
  4 KB (597 words) - 21:01, 23 April 2012
• River Tamar
  ...border darts west along the [[River Ottery]], leaving Devon on both banks of the Tamar for a short reach. ...n industrial river far further upstream, bearing the output from the mines of the Tamar Valley.
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• River Erme
  ...urce on [[Dartmoor]] it flows in a generally southerly direction past some of the best-preserved archaeological remains on the moor. ...in Bigbury Bay, between the rivers [[River Yealm|Yealm]] and [[River Avon, Devon|Avon]].
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• River Walkham
  The '''River Walkham''' is a river of [[Devon]] whose source is on [[Dartmoor]]. About three miles below Horrabridge, by a footbridge on the West Devon Way, the Walkham joins the [[River Tavy]].
  894 B (134 words) - 15:54, 25 March 2012
• River Okement
  ...Great Britain and Ireland (1868)]</ref> The Ock gave its name to the town of [[Okehampton]]. ...west to the Tamar) and the [[River Teign]], (flowing to the east coast of Devon). The East Okement too rises close by on [[Okement Hill]], where several b
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