River Seaton

Rivers south of Bodmin Moor
The River Seaton, Hessenford

The River Seaton is a river in east Cornwall, England, UK which flows southwards into the English Channel.

The river rises near Caradon Hill and flows generally south past Darite, Menheniot and Hessenford and a few miles farther south into the sea at Seaton Beach, west of Downderry.[1]

There is an early record of the river as "Seythyn" in 1302; the name means "little arrow river".[2]

See also

References

  1. Ordnance Survey One-inch Map of Great Britain; Bodmin and Launceston, sheet 186. 1961
  2. Weatherhill, Craig (2009). A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-Names. Westport, Co. Mayo: Evertype. ISBN 9781904808220; p. 3

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