East Stoke

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Many thanks to Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust for facilitating this camera's location and to Westcountry Rivers Trust for capitally funding its installation.. The river rises in the Dorset Downs at Evershot, passes through Maiden Newton, Dorchester, West Stafford and Woodsford. At Wareham it and the River Piddle, also known as the River Trent, flow into Poole Harbour via the Wareham Channel. The catchment area is 181 square miles map, approximately one sixth of the county. East of Dorchester the river runs through unresistant sands, clays and gravels, which would have originally been capped by chalk which is still extant in the Dorset Downs to the north and Purbeck Hills to the south. The valley has wide flood plains and marshes and gave the name to the Durotriges, water dwellers, the Celtic tribe of Dorset. The river forms a wide, shallow ria at its estuary, Poole Harbour. The River Frome is well known for its excellent Salmon, Brown Trout and Grayling fishing.