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  • ...e West Country lying along the coast of the [[Bristol Channel]] from the [[River Avon, Somerset|Avon]] to the borders of [[Devon]] on Exmoor and deep inland ...er Severn]] opens into the sea. The border with [[Gloucestershire]] is the River Avon.
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  • ...channel for the River Parrett. The 7½ embanked channel, called the [[Sowy River]], runs from Monks Leaze Clyse below [[Langport]] to the King's Sedgemoor D ...found in the ditches and rhynes. The land lies in the flood plain of the [[River Parrett]] and many of the fields are poorly drained and seasonally water-lo
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  • '''Burnham-on-Sea''' is a town in [[Somerset]], at the mouth of the [[River Parrett]] where it opens into [[Bridgwater Bay]]. Burnham was a small villa ...e been in part to maintain navigational systems, to aid ships entering the River Parrett and what is now [[Highbridge, Somerset|Highbridge]]. When the Roman
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  • [[File:Riverparrett.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The River Parrett near Burrowbridge]] The '''River Parrett''' is a famous river of [[Somerset]], 37 miles long and flowing through both Somerset and [[Dors
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  • [[File:uk_som_brue.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The River Brue near Glastonbury]] The '''River Brue''' is a river of [[Somerset]], largely passing through the [[Somerset Levels]]. It rises
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  • ...nd of the [[Polden Hills]] in [[Somerset]]. The parish forms part of the [[Huntspill and Puriton Hundred]] and had a recorded population of 1,068 in 2011. ...gallons of water per day were extracted from the nearby artificial [[River Huntspill]].<ref name=williams-238-9/> Now the extraction rate is probably very much
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  • ...idge, Somerset|Highbridge]], on the south bank of the tidal reach of the [[River Brue]].
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  • ...along the southern flank of the [[Polden Hills]], to discharge into the [[River Parrett]] at [[Dunball]] near [[Bridgwater]]. As the name suggests, the cha ...or an armaments factory at [[Puriton]], and again in 1972, when the [[Sowy River]] flood relief channel was built. The drain has hosted the National Fishing
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  • ...in turn, was derived from the area's location to the northern end of the [[River Parrett]]. ...tley Hundred]] and [[North Curry Hundred]] to the east, separated by the [[River Parrett]].<ref name=1851vol3>[https://books.google.com/books?id=mxIQAAAAYAA
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