"Tavy" redirects here. For other uses, see Tavy (disambiguation).
The Tavy above Tavistock, on the moorLopwell weir, highest point of navigation
Kayaking on the Tavy.
The Tavy (/ˈteɪvi/) is a river on Dartmoor, Devon, England. The name derives from the Brythonic root "Tam", once thought to mean 'dark' but now generally understood to mean 'to flow'.[1] It has given its name to the town of Tavistock and the villages of Mary Tavy and Peter Tavy.
It is a tributary of the River Tamar and has as its own tributaries:
Collybrooke
River Burn
River Wallabrooke
River Lumburn
River Walkham
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River Tavy routemap
Legend
Dartmoor
Mary Tavy Power Station
Cholwell Brook
Collybrooke
Langsford Rd
River Burn
Stannary Bridge
Vigo Bridge
A386
A386 West Bridge
Tavistock Canal
River Lumburn
River Walkham
Denham Bridge
Lopwell Dam
Limit of navigation
Blaxton Creek
Bere Ferrers
Tamar Valley Line
River Tamar
At Tavistock it feeds a canal running to Morwellham Quay.
Its mouth is crossed by the Tavy Bridge which carries the Tamar Valley railway line.
^Owen, Hywel Wyn (1998). University of Wales Press. Cardiff, United Kingdom: University of Wales Press. p. 103. ISBN 0708314589.
The Tavy (/ˈteɪvi/) is a river on Dartmoor, Devon, England. The name derives from the Brythonic root "Tam", once thought to mean 'dark' but now generally...
Peter Tavy (/ˈteɪvi/) is a village 3 miles (4.8 km) along the A386, North-East of Tavistock, Devon, England; it is named after the RiverTavy. St Peter's...
is named after the RiverTavy. There is an electoral ward with the same name. Its population at the 2011 census was 1,559. Mary Tavy used to be home to...
a river on Dartmoor, Devon, England. It is a tributary of the RiverTavy. The Painted Stream, Robin Armstrong, Dent, 1985, ISBN 0-460-04702-7 Rivers of...
stannary and market town within West Devon, England. It is situated on the RiverTavy from which its name derives. At the 2011 census the three electoral wards...
River Burn may refer to: The River Burn, Devon, a tributary of the RiverTavy on Dartmoor in the county of Devon, England The River Burn, Norfolk, which...
England. It is a tributary of the RiverTavy. The Painted Stream, Robin Armstrong, Dent, 1985, ISBN 0-460-04702-7 Rivers of the United Kingdom 50°34′43″N...
Tributaries of the river include the rivers Inny, Ottery, Kensey and Lynher (or St Germans River) on the Cornish side and the Deer and Tavy on the Devon side...
The Wallabrook is a river on Dartmoor, Devon, England. It is a tributary of the RiverTavy. For more details see Walla Brook. The Painted Stream, Robin...
Tavy Bridge is a railway bridge across the mouth of the RiverTavy just east of its confluence with the River Tamar. It was built by the Plymouth, Devonport...
Dartmoor, one of five outcrops on the western bank of the RiverTavy in woodland north of Peter Tavy, at grid reference SX514788. There is another on Bodmin...
River Seaton (MS) Tinker's Lake Tamar catchment River Tamar (MS) River Lynher (R) (or St Germans River) River Tiddy (R) Withey Brook (R) RiverTavy (L)...
Devon. It is located to the north of Plymouth, on the west bank of the RiverTavy. It has a railway station on the Tamar Valley Line. The civil parish includes...
England, is a large country house set in landscaped parkland, on the RiverTavy to the north of Plymouth. It was built in about 1560, rebuilt in the mid-18th...
that surround the town of Tavistock, on the borders of the River Tamar and the RiverTavy. It was reviewed by Southey himself in the Quarterly Review...
Cornwall, several rivers named Tame in the Midlands and North Yorkshire, the Tavy on Dartmoor, the Team of the North East, the Teifi and Teme of Wales, the...
Retrieved 25 May 2007. Dawson, Simon (1 January 2000). "RiverTavy - Tavistock Canal". UK Rivers Guide. Archived from the original on 17 January 2021. Hadfield...
playing fields, set on the edge of Dartmoor and including a stretch of the RiverTavy, and four separate senior boarding houses, and a junior house, each with...
the River Tamar via the Hamoaze and Devonport Dockyard, the largest naval dockyard in western Europe. The other, at northeast, is from the River Plym...
South was the Great Western Railway station, on the other side of the riverTavy, opposite the town. The trackbed of the Tavistock North route for around...
Calstock Viaduct is on the Bere peninsula, between riverTavy (crossed by the Tavy Bridge) and the river Tamar. The driver changes ends of the train at the...
Standing above the headwaters of the RiverTavy, Fur Tor {UK National Grid reference 588831} is described by William Crossing as "perhaps the grandest...
runs between Amicombe Hill and Rattlebrook Hill to join the RiverTavy at the mouth of Tavy Cleave. Recreational walkers tend to stay west of Rattle Brook...
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