Tamar Valley
The Tamar Valley is an area of outstanding natural beauty in Devon and Cornwall, consisting of the Tamar, Lynher and Tavy valleys, as well as surrounding areas.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Cornwall and Devon, England
- Also known as: “River Tamar”, “Tamar”, and “Tamar River”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bere Alston railway station and Bere Ferrers railway station.
Bere Alston railway station
Railway station
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Bere Alston railway station serves the village of Bere Alston in Devon, England, 10+1⁄4 miles north of Plymouth on the Tamar Valley Line to Gunnislake.
Bere Ferrers railway station
Railway station
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Bere Ferrers station on the Tamar Valley Line is situated near the village of Bere Ferrers in Devon, England. The station is on the former Southern main line between Exeter and Plymouth via Okehampton. It is currently operated by Great Western Railway.
Cotehele
Photo: Chris Gunns, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cotehele is a medieval house with Tudor additions, situated in the parish of Calstock in the east of Cornwall, England, and now belonging to the National Trust.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saltash and Bere Alston.
Saltash
Photo: Ed Webster, CC BY 2.0.
Saltash is a town and civil parish in eastern Cornwall, England. Saltash faces the city of Plymouth over the River Tamar and is popularly known as "the Gateway to Cornwall".
Bere Alston
Village
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bere Alston is a village in West Devon in the county of Devon in England. It forms part of the civil parish of Bere Ferrers. The village is reported to have a population of 2,259…
St Dominic
Village
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Dominic is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is situated 2+1⁄2 miles east of Callington and five miles north of Saltash.
Tamar Valley
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Tamar Valley from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Tamar Valley” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Tamar”
- Basque: “Tamar ibaia”
- Breton: “Tamer”
- Catalan: “Tamar (Cornualla)”
- Catalan: “Tamar”
- Cebuano: “River Tamar”
- Chinese: “塔馬河”
- Chinese: “泰马河”
- Chinese: “添馬河”
- Cornish: “Tamar”
- Cornish: “Tamer”
- Dutch: “River Tamar”
- Dutch: “Tamar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر تامار”
- Finnish: “Dowr Tamar”
- Finnish: “Tamar”
- French: “Tamar”
- German: “Tamar”
- Greek: “Τέιμαρ”
- Hungarian: “Tamar”
- Ido: “Tamar”
- Irish: “An Tamar”
- Irish: “An Tamer”
- Irish: “Dowr Tamar”
- Italian: “Tamar”
- Japanese: “テイマール川”
- Japanese: “テイマー川”
- Korean: “타마강”
- Manx: “An Tamer”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tamar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tamar i England”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tamar”
- Norwegian: “Tamar”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tamer”
- Persian: “رود تیمار”
- Polish: “Tamar”
- Portuguese: “rio Tamar”
- Portuguese: “Rio Tamar”
- Russian: “Теймар (река, Великобритания)”
- Russian: “Теймар”
- Serbian: “Тејмар”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tamar”
- Slovenian: “reka Tamar”
- Slovenian: “River Tamar”
- Slovenian: “Tamar”
- Spanish: “Río Tamar”
- Swedish: “River Tamar”
- Venetian: “Fiume Tamar”
- Welsh: “Afon Tamar”
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