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Walla Brook

The Walla Brook is the name of four different streams on Dartmoor, England:

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Map of Walla Brook, United Kingdom

  • The Walla Brook rises near the Warren House Inn and flows south for some 4 miles (6 km) to join the lower East Dart River near Babeny. It forms part of the boundary between Teignbridge (to the east) and West Devon Districts.
  • The North Walla Brook also rises near the Warren House Inn but flows north and then east towards the River Bovey.
  • The Walla Brook rises near Hangingstone Hill (1 mile east of Cranmere Pool) and flows north and then east towards the North Teign River. This brook is also known locally as Headon River.
  • The Walla Brook rises at Wallabrook Head, just south of Doe Tor, and flows west for 1 mile (1.6 km) across Doetor Common towards the River Lyd.

    • In addition, there are:

  • the Western Wella Brook, a tributary of the River Avon
  • the River Wallabrook. This is a tributary of the River Tavy. It is just outside the Dartmoor National Park boundary, but it flows for about 4 miles or 6 km in a southerly direction from near Brent Tor and joins the River Tavy near Tavistock.

    • Charlotte Shaw

    On 4 March 2007, while training for the annual Ten Tors event, Charlotte Shaw was killed after she was knocked unconscious and swept downstream. She was found by a Royal Navy rescue helicopter about 20 minutes after the alarm was raised. She was found 150 m downstream from where she had fallen in. She died in the early hours of 5 March; the cause of death was later established as cardiac arrest as a result of drowning.

    Etymology

    There are suggestions that the name indicates continued habitation by Iron Age farmers ("the stream of the Welsh": i.e. foreigners). However wella is also an Old English word for "stream".

    References

    Walla Brook Wikipedia
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