River Tamar
River Tamar
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MARYAM O
London, UK63 contributions
Aug 2023 • Family
The rover view was amazing, especially when the weather is good. There is a 2 hour boat ride to Plymouth too, but a bit dear.
Written 22 August 2023
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Alice_Chris
Cambridge, UK19 contributions
Aug 2021 • Couples
We went kayaking on the river at high tide. It was so peaceful and quiet. Very relaxing afternoon, the current wasn’t too strong and the views were beautiful.
Written 19 August 2021
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David B
Rayong, Thailand9,493 contributions
Sept 2018 • Solo
The Tamar River, which forms much of the border between Cornwall and Devon, is designated a "Site of Special Scientific Interest, a European Area of Conservation, and an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty".
It is also designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape.
The Tamar's source is less than 6 km from the north Cornish coast, but it flows southward and its course runs 98 km across the peninsula to the south coast, emptying into Plymouth Sound.
At North Petherwin on the river is the Tamar Ottery and Wildlife Center, but I did not have time to visit it, much as I would have liked to.
It is also designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape.
The Tamar's source is less than 6 km from the north Cornish coast, but it flows southward and its course runs 98 km across the peninsula to the south coast, emptying into Plymouth Sound.
At North Petherwin on the river is the Tamar Ottery and Wildlife Center, but I did not have time to visit it, much as I would have liked to.
Written 30 September 2018
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Jannerbloke
Plymouth, UK13,535 contributions
Apr 2023 • Friends
Paddle boarding with a friend just down from Cothele to half of mile downstream of Pentillie. Constantly encountering refuse and litter of all kinds. Big plastic shop crates, tin cans, food wrappers. Amazon parcel bags, broken furniture, bathroom waste, big plastic supermarket drinks bottles etc etc. Surprisingly this stuff can take weeks to find its way into the estuary, generally being carried up and down stream on many dozens of successive tides. We went back the following morning and filled half a dozen large rubbish sacks flotsam and much worse.
Written 10 April 2023
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Jannerbloke
Plymouth, UK13,535 contributions
Oct 2018 • Friends
Longer than most people realise. Source about four miles inland from the Bristol Channel. Despite centuries of historical, literary, political and tourist industry campaigns by the Cornish to distinguish life and landscape west of the river, the waterway itself has plenty about it. Running through lush farmland there is some fishing. Roughly south of Launceston it become more like a river and has a significant industrial history. Arsenic and Copper mines. The famous Devon Great Consols. Scars from slag on the steep valley sides around Gunnislake, from which the railway runs roughly parallel to much of the river via Calstock and on to Plymouth. The river is navigable at least to calstock and there are frequent popular booze cruises up from the city when the tide is right. The Tamar Valley is renown for fruit and veg and has grand old country houses including at Cotehele and Pentillie. When the Tamar meets the Tavy the estuary widens up and there is plenty of evidence of water sports. Trots running under the Royal Albert Railway Bridge and the 1960s road bridge until the naval base dominates everything, said to be the biggest in Western Europe although few British ships remain. The estuary here is called the Hamoaze and not far beyond the busy chain floating bridge car ferries, squeezes graciously between the old Victualling Yard and Mount Edgecumbe Country Park and into Plymouth Sound.
Written 30 October 2018
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Anyone know if the Tamar is safe to swim or paddle in, at and downstream from the historical mining areas and from the decommissioned nuclear submarine storage zone to the organised bathing beaches along the western areas of the Sound?
Written 30 October 2018
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