The Meavy is a beautiful river which rises high on Dartmoor near Princetown and flows through Burrator Reservoir and then south to join the River Plym at Shaugh Bridge.
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Drake's Leat, also known as Plymouth Leat, was a watercourse constructed in the late 16th century to tap the River Meavy on Dartmoor, England, from which it ...
... Sir Francis Drake constructing a 14-mile leat from the River Meavy on Dartmoor in 1591. The original Eddystone Lighthouse (1698 - 1703) was the first ...
Sir Francis Drake ( c. 1540 – 28 January 1596) was an English explorer and privateer best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition ...
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Aug 16, 2017 · Drake's man-made river or leat was cut around seven foot wide and was a little over 18 miles long.
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Some 60 years after the first Spanish colonies were established in New Spain, Sir Francis Drake sailed from Plymouth, England, on Dec. 13, 1577, with 100 ...
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Drake's fleet was the first English expedition to sail through the Straits of Magellan and enter the Pacific Ocean, which until this time was considered an ...
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One of his Drake's most significant civic acts was to oversee the construction of a granite lined leat, or watercourse, which brought fresh water from Dartmoor ...
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Nov 27, 2023 · Also known as Drake's Leat, the leat was built in 1590-1 to supply water to Plymouth. The route was surveyed by Robert Lampan of St Budeaux.
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It is a place very plentiful of victuals, and hath in it no want of fresh water. Our General, after certain days of his abode in this place, being on shore ...