The River Lydden is a tributary of the River Stour 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 ...

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. Its headwaters rise at the foot of the

scarp slope An escarpment is a steep slope landform, slope or long cliff that forms as a result of faulting or erosion and separates two relatively level areas having different elevations. The terms ''scarp'' and ''scarp face'' are often used interchangea ...

of the

Dorset Downs The Dorset Downs are an area of chalk downland in the centre of the county Dorset in south west England. The downs are the most western part of a larger chalk formation which also includes (from west to east) Cranborne Chase, Salisbury Plain, Ham ...

near

Buckland Newton Buckland Newton is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in Dorset, England. It is situated beneath the escarpment, scarp slope of the Dorset Downs, south of Sherborne. In the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census the civil pa ...

. These headwaters streams coalesce south of

Pulham Pulham is a village and civil parish in the English counties, county of Dorset in south-west England. It is situated in the Blackmore Vale, southeast of Sherborne. In the 2011 United Kingdom census, 2011 Census the civil parish had 105 dwelling ...

, from where the river flows north-east to it confluence with the Wonston Brook. Continuing in a northerly direction it passes King’s Stag, to Twoford bridge where it is crossed by the A357 between

Lydlinch __NOTOC__ Lydlinch is a village and civil parish in the Blackmore Vale in north Dorset, England, about west of Sturminster Newton. The village is sited on Oxford clay close to the small River Lydden. The parish – which includes the village of ...

and

Bagber Bagber is a hamlet in the county of Dorset in southern England, situated about west and northwest of Sturminster Newton in the North Dorset administrative district. It consists of Bagber, Lower Bagber and Bagber Common, which all lie within St ...

, beyond which it meets its main tributary the

Caundle Brook Caundle Brook is a tributary of the River Lydden that flows through Blackmore Vale in Dorset, England. Its headwaters rise at the foot of Dogbury Hill near Cosmore. The brook then flows in a northerly direction past the villages of Middlemars ...

. The lower Lydden then flows beneath the listed Bagber Bridge where it is crossed by a minor road, to join the Stour near King’s Mill south west of

Marnhull Marnhull ( ) is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It lies in the Blackmore Vale, north of Sturminster Newton. The resort towns of Bournemouth and Weymouth are approximately south. Marnhull is sited on a l ...

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