Teign

Teignmouth sits on a spur at the mouth of the river – you guessed it – Teign, so there's sparkling H2O on three of its four sides, like an almost-moat.

Let's move to Teignmouth, Devon Tom Dyckhoff 2010

My friends the Randall-Pages have lent me their oak cabin in an old oak wood in the valley of the Teign near Drewsteignton.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

My friends the Randall-Pages have lent me their oak cabin in an old oak wood in the valley of the Teign near Drewsteignton.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

The cabin falls into shadow at sunset, so I move thirty yards up the hillside to sit on a golden clifftop overlooking the Teign and its wooded valley.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

The cabin falls into shadow at sunset, so I move thirty yards up the hillside to sit on a golden clifftop overlooking the Teign and its wooded valley.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Dartmoor, where the rivers Dart, and Avon, and Teign form themselves, and where the broken moor is half cultivated, and the wild-looking upland fields are half moor.

Tales of all countries 2004

This was nearly three miles from Nuncombe, and was a beautiful wild slope of ground full of ancient, blighted, blasted, but still half-living oaks, oaks that still brought forth leaves overlooking a bend of the river Teign.

He Knew He Was Right 2004

It functions as a huge sponge, the peat storing its rain all winter to feed the Teign, the Dart, the Tavy, and all the other streams and rivers that are born here.

The Moor King, Laurie R. 1998

_ -- The _puckie_-stone is a rock above the Teign, near Chagford.

Notes and Queries, Number 61, December 28, 1850 Various

One of the bogs near the centre of the Moor was never dry, and formed a kind of shallow lake out of which rose five rivers, the Ockment or Okement, the Taw, the Tavy, the Teign, and the Dart, the last named and most important having given its name to the Moor.

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor