The Taw, Devon

Historical Description

Taw, The, a river of Devonshire, rising on Okement Hill in Dartmoor, running north-north-eastward past South Tawton, North Tawton, and Brushford to the neighbourhood of Lapford, and proceeding north-north-westward past Chulmleigh, Umberleigh, Bishops Tawton, and Barnstaple, to a joint embouchure with the Torridge into Bideford Bay below Appledore. It has a total course of about 50 miles; it receives the Little Dart at Chulmleigh and the Yeo at New Place, and it is closely followed all down from Lapford by the North Devon railway.