A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
OTTER (The), a river of Devon. It rises on the Eend of the Black Down hills, at the boundary with Somerset, 6½ miles S of Taunton; and runs about 24 miles south-south-westward, past Honiton and Ottery, St. Mary, to the English channel, below Otterton, and 5 miles S W of Sidmouth. Its scenery, over much of its run, is very beautiful; its waters are famed for angling, and have been described as "rolling musically; " and its banks are the scene of the East Devon otter houndshunt. Coleridge thus addresses it:
Mine eyes
I never shut amid the sunny ray,
But straight with all their tints thy waters rise,
Thy crossing plank, thy marge with willows gray,
and bedded sand that, vein'd with various dyes,
Gleam'd through thy bright transparence!"
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a river" (ADL Feature Type: "rivers") |
| Administrative units: | Devon AncC |
| Place names: | OTTER | OTTER THE | THE OTTER |
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