Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Taw

Taw, river, Devon; rises on Okement Hill, Dartmoor, and flows NE. past South Tawton and North Tawton to Lapford, and thence NW. past Chulmleigh, Umberleigh, Bishops Tawton, and Barnstaple to Bideford Bay; is 50 miles long.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

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Feature Description: "river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Devon Ancient County

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