River Okement
The River Okement is a river of Devon which becomes a tributary of the River Torridge. It was formerly known as the River Ock.[1] The Ock gave its name to the town of Okehampton.
The Okement begins as two rivers; the East Okement and the West Okement, both of which rise on the high moorland Dartmoor. The West Okement runs from the Cranmere Pool in the middlemost of the moor, very close to the sources of the River Taw (flowing to the north coast), the River Tavy (flowing 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 bourns soon join it to swell the stream.
After each of the rivers has swallowed the waters of many moorland streams, they meet and join together at Okehampton.
The united River Okement flows generally north, past the villages of Jacobstowe and Monkokehampton, and discahrges its waters into the River Torridge near Meeth.
