Dawlish Water
The Dawlish Water is a minor river in southern Devon which enters the English Channel in Dawlish, a seaside resort close to the mouth of the Exe Estuary.
The river rises in the Haldon Hills, in the Zigzag Woods south of Great Haldon, and loops through a steep-sided combe, through no village of any size, just Ashcombe hamlet in the upper reaches and farmsteads, then down to Dawlish.
In Dawlish the river provides an ornament in the middle of the village, running through a linear park, with a series of weirs providing stretches of gentle water with a variety of waterfowl. The fowl on the river here includes a family of black swans, which have become a symbol of the village.
The river is culverted beneath the road and the railway line that fronts the seashore, and emerges across the beach.
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