River Strat

The River Strat is a river in the northernmost part of Cornwall in southwest England. The Strat flows for 12.7 miles (20.4 km) to the sea at Bude, having risen to the south of Kilkhampton. It flows initially in a generally southwesterly direction through Stratton to a meeting with its major tributary, the River Neet at Helebridge.^[1] The river then turns abruptly to the north-northwest, parallel to the coast which it meets at Bude Haven. The Neet rises to the east of Week St Mary and flows north and northwest to its confluence with the Strat. Other tributaries rise to the west of Week St Mary. The section downstream from the vicinity of Helebridge is accompanied by the now disused Bude Canal. The rivers are home to trout, lamprey and eels.^[2] The Strat is sometimes also referred to as the River Neet.^[3][4] Older forms of the name of Stratton include Straetneat, one of the meanings of which may be the 'valley of the (river known as) Neat'.^[5]

The River Strat in Stratton

References

1. "River Catchments NEET and STRAT". Cornwall Rivers Project. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
2. "The Rivers Neet & Strat". Westcountry Rivers Trust. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
3. 111 Bude, Boscastle & Tintagel (Map) (A ed.). 1:25,000. Explorer. Ordnance Survey. 1997. ISBN 0319217426.
4. "Bing maps". Microsoft Bing. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
5. Ekwall, Eilert (1981). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names (Fourth ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press/University Press. p. 449. ISBN 0198691033.

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