River Taw rises at Taw Head, a spring on the central northern flanks of Dartmoor is a National Park in the centre of the English county of Devon. ...Dartmoor. It makes seafall 45 miles away on the north coast at a joint estuary mouth which it shares with the River Torridge. The stream runs through the late Poet Laureate Edward James Hughes (August 17, 1930 in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire _ October 28, 1998) was an English poet. ...Ted Hughes' adopted home village of North Tawton. Slowly picking up headwaters from rivers such as the Mole that rise on Devon's other upland area, Dunster Yarn Market (a covered market for the sale of local cloth, built in 1609) and Dunster Castle, Exmoor Exmoor National Park is a national park situated on the Bristol Channel coast of Devon and Somerset in South West England. ...Exmoor, the river increases in size and becomes a recreational trout river before becoming tidal at Newbridge, approximately 12 miles from the sea. This journey passes through rural Devon, the river being surrounded by pasture and wooded valley sides.

The Taw only passes through one urban centre of any size, External links Barnstaple (DMOZ.org) Barnstaple Town Council and Town Centre Management North Devon District Council Barnstaple Webcam (from Civic Centre) Queens Theatre, Barnstaple Categories: Stub | Towns in Devon ...Barnstaple. The Long Bridge here, originally medieval, currently affords the lowest bridging point of the Taw. Work, however, has started on a long_awaited 'downstream bridge' which is due to open in 2007 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...2007. Seawards of Barnstaple, the river's journey is blocked by the large dune complex of Braunton Burrows, hence its late diversion south_westward and shared entry with the Torridge across Zulu Bar sandbanks and out into Barnstaple (or Bideford) Bay.

The second lowest port on the Taw is Fremington. Between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries its tidal quay was the busiest port (tonnage) between Bristol and Plymouth, mainly as it was a handy landing point for Welsh coal from across the Bristol Channel which could be distributed around the south-west peninsula by train (track finally closed 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...1987). The lowest port (or at least jetty) can be found at Yelland. The site of an oil-fired power station (closed 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...1984, although only sporadically active post-1973; demolished 1989), it still is used as a tanker-distribution centre for commercial and domestic petrol and diesel deliveries. The oils storage tanks here are filled from coastal lighters.

The flooding of the Taw in August 1983 and the destruction of the sand dune causeway to Crow Island at the southern tip of Braunton Burrows was the inspiration for Ted Hughes' poem to commemorate the birth of HRH Prince William of Wales William Arthur Philip Louis His Royal Highness Prince William of Wales (William Arthur Philip Louis Mountbatten-Windsor) (born June 21, 1982) is a member of the British Royal Family, grandson of Queen Elizabeth II and first son of Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales. ...Prince William, son of Prince Charles may refer to: Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, current heir-apparent to the British throne Any of the previous British royals named Charles, Prince of Wales The former Belgian regent, Prince Charles of Belgium This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might...Prince Charles.