Caundle Brook is a tributary of the
River Lydden that flows through
Blackmore Vale
The Blackmore Vale (; less commonly spelt ''Blackmoor'') is a vale, or wide valley, in north Dorset, and to a lesser extent south Somerset and southwest Wiltshire in southern England.
Geography
The vale is part of the Stour valley, part of t ...
in
Dorset
Dorset ( ; archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the unitary authority areas of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset (unitary authority), Dors ...
,
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...
.
Its headwaters rise at the foot of
Dogbury Hill
At , Dogbury Hill is one of the highest hills in the county of Dorset, England. It is the site of a prehistoric hill fort.
__NOTOC__ Location
Dogmore Hill rises just a few hundred yards north of the village of Minterne Magna in the Blackmore V ...
near
Cosmore. The brook then flows in a northerly direction past the villages of Middlemarsh and Tiley until it collects The Cam and a second tributary that drains
Caundle Marsh
Caundle Marsh is a village and civil parish in northwest Dorset, England, situated in the Blackmore Vale, southeast of Sherborne. The parish includes the hamlet of Tut Hill and the Dorset County Council estimate that in 2013 the population of th ...
.
[ Here it turns east, and is then crossed by Cornford Bridge and then the A3030 near ]Bishop's Caundle
Bishop's Caundle is a village and civil parish in Dorset, South West England. It is situated south-east of Sherborne. The local travel links are located from the village to Sherborne railway station and to Bournemouth International Airport. Th ...
. It continues past Rowden Mill south of Stourton Caundle
Stourton Caundle is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England. It lies within the Blackmore Vale, about east of Sherborne. In the 2011 census the parish had 181 households and a population of 439.
Stourton Caundle ...
before being crossed by the A357 at Warr Bridge, beyond which it joins the Lydden near Lydlinch.[
]
See also
*List of rivers of England
This is a list of rivers of England, organised geographically and taken anti-clockwise around the English coast where the various rivers discharge into the surrounding seas, from the Solway Firth on the Scottish border to the Welsh Dee on the Wel ...
References
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Rivers of Dorset