Cherry Brook
The Cherry Brook is a tributary of the West Dart River on Dartmoor, Devon, England. It rises about a kilometre north of Lower White Tor in the open moorland and flows in a generally southerly direction past Powder Mills, the site of a 19th-century gunpowder factory, then under a clapper bridge where it turns easterly and passes under the B3212 road at Higher Cherrybrook Bridge.Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Prince Hall and Wistman’s Wood.
Wistman’s Wood
Deciduous forest
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Wistman's Wood is one of Britain's last remaining ancient temperate rainforests and one of three remote high-altitude oakwoods on Dartmoor in Devon, England. Wistman’s Wood is situated 2½ miles northwest of Cherry Brook.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lower Cherrybrook Bridge and Hexworthy.
Lower Cherrybrook Bridge
Locality
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lower Cherrybrook Bridge is a locality.
Hexworthy
Hamlet
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Hexworthy is a hamlet on Dartmoor, in Devon, England. It lies on the West Dart River a mile upstream from Dartmeet. Historically in the parish of Lydford, since 1987 it has been in the civil parish of Dartmoor Forest. Hexworthy is situated 1½ miles southeast of Cherry Brook.
Bellever
Hamlet
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Bellever is a hamlet in Dartmoor, Devon, England. It is located on the river East Dart about 2 kilometres south of Postbridge. The first mention of a settlement at this location is in a Duchy of Cornwall record from 1355 which gives the name of a farm here as Welford, a contraction of wielle and ford. Bellever is situated 2½ miles northeast of Cherry Brook.
Cherry Brook
- Type: Stream
- Description: Stream on Dartmoor in Devon, England
- Category: body of water
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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