Artificial watercourse or aqueduct dug into the ground
The Devonport leat near Nun's cross farm
A leat (/ˈliːt/; also lete or leet, or millstream) is the name, common in the south and west of England and in Wales, for an artificial watercourse or aqueduct dug into the ground, especially one supplying water to a watermill or its mill pond. Other common uses for leats include delivery of water for hydraulic mining and mineral concentration, for irrigation, to serve a dye works or other industrial plant, and provision of drinking water to a farm or household or as a catchment cut-off to improve the yield of a reservoir.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, leat is cognate with let in the sense of "allow to pass through". Other names for the same thing include fleam (probably a leat supplying water to a mill that did not have a millpool). In parts of northern England, for example around Sheffield, the equivalent word is goit. In southern England, a leat used to supply water for water-meadow irrigation is often called a carrier, top carrier, or main.
A leat (/ˈliːt/; also lete or leet, or millstream) is the name, common in the south and west of England and in Wales, for an artificial watercourse or...
The Devonport Leat is a leat in Devon constructed in the 1790s to carry fresh drinking water from the high ground of Dartmoor to the expanding dockyards...
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A mill race, millrace or millrun, mill lade (Scotland) or mill leat (Southwest England) is the current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel...
gone. It may be fed by a man-made stream, known by several terms including leat and mill stream. The channel or stream leading from the mill pond is the...
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count in the US in June has been extremely below average, making it the leat active June since 2021. While most days featured tornadoes, they were generally...
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Examples: Irish: Ná bac le mac an bhacaigh is ní bhacfaidh mac an bhacaigh leat. (Literal translation) Do not bother with son the beggar's and not will-bother...
Cairns Wheal Emma Leat - Dry leat that used to supply water to copper mines near Buckfastleigh Holne Moor Leat - Or Hamlyn's Leat. Used to supply water...
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uncertain when the leat was first made but the south end of the leat and Lower Mill are shown on an early seventeenth-century map. The leat is no longer in...
Beag. Michael Bauer and Will Robertson. Retrieved 15 January 2019. "tapadh leat". Am Faclair Beag. Michael Bauer and Will Robertson. Retrieved 15 January...
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to B4696) Bridge part of ex-leat channel rejoins 21a & b High & Oaklake Bridges (High Road), Ashton Keynes rest of ex-leat channel rejoins 22 Waterhay...
pilchard trade. During his term as lord mayor, Drake contracted to construct a leat, or canal, to bring water from the River Meavy, and to build six new gristmills...
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