River Barle
The River Barle runs from the Chains on northern Exmoor, in Somerset, England to join the River Exe at Exebridge, Devon. The river and the Barle Valley are both designated as biological Sites of Special Scientific Interest.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in the United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Barle” and “River Burle”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Nicholas, Brushford and Bury Castle.
Church of St Nicholas, Brushford
Church
Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Anglican parish Church of St Nicholas in Brushford, Somerset, England was built in the 15th century, and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.
Bury Castle
Archaeological site
Photo: David Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bury Castle near Brompton Regis in the English county of Somerset was an Iron Age univallate hillfort which was reused with the creation of a motte after the Norman Conquest. It has been designated as a scheduled monument.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Exebridge and Brushford.
Exebridge
Village
Photo: Eugene Birchall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Exebridge is a village that lies on the border between Devon and Somerset, England. It lies at the confluence of the Barle and Exe rivers. Exebridge is named so because of the bridge over the River Exe that also marks the border between Devon and Somerset.
Brushford
Village
Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brushford is a village and civil parish 2 miles south of Dulverton and 12 miles north of Tiverton in Devon, in Somerset, England. According to the 2001 census, it had a population of 535 in 243 households, reducing to 519 at the 2011 Census.
Dulverton
Town
Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Exmoor National Park is situated in the south west of the United Kingdom. It spreads across the north coast of Devon and west Somerset and was one of Britain's first national parks. Dulverton is situated 2 miles northwest of River Barle.
River Barle
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“River Barle” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Բարլ”
- Cebuano: “River Barle”
- Chinese: “巴爾勒河”
- Dutch: “River Barle”
- Estonian: “Barle’i jõgi”
- Estonian: “Barle`i jõgi”
- Russian: “Барл (река)”
- Russian: “Барл”
- Swedish: “River Barle”
- Welsh: “Afon Barle”
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