Loddiswell

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Many thanks to Avon Mill Garden Centre for facilitating this camera's location and to the Westcountry Rivers Trust for capitally funding its installation. The River Avon, also known as the River Aune, is a river in the county of Devon. It rises in the southern half of Dartmoor National Park in an area of bog to the west of Ryder's Hill. Close to where the river leaves Dartmoor a dam was built in 1957 to form the Avon reservoir After leaving the moor it passes through South Brent and then Avonwick and Aveton Gifford and flows into the sea at Bigbury on Sea. Loddiswell is a parish and village in the South Hams district of Devon. It lies on the west side of the River Avon or Aune and is three miles from Kingsbridge. There is evidence of occupation going back to Roman times.