| The Cherry Brook is a tributary of the West Dart
River. It rises north of Lower White Tor, heads south past Powder Mills
(the site of a 19th-century gunpowder factory), flows under an old clapper
bridge, then under Higher Cherrybrook Bridge before being joined by the
Muddilake Brook at Lower Cherrybrook Bridge. This bridge is a Grade II-listed
building dating from the late 18th or early 19th century. Salmon breed in
the Cherry Brook, laying their eggs in special nests in the gravel called
redds in the late autumn. The Cherry Brook then winds its way down to meet
the West Dart River just under a mile from the bridge. |
