Congresbury Yeo
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- For other rivers called Yeo, see River Yeo
The River Yeo (often referred to as the Congresbury Yeo, after the village of Congresbury, through which it flows, to avoid confusion with other similarly-named rivers) is a river which flows through North Somerset, England.
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[edit] River course
It rises in the centre of Compton Martin village, in the district of Bath and North East Somerset, as a spring which feeds the village duckpond, from there it flows past the village of Ubley and then enters Blagdon Lake was created in the 1890s by damming the river, just to the north of the village of Blagdon. From the lake the river flows south of Wrington and Iwood, where there was once one of several watermills along the river. It then flows around the northern outskirts of Congresbury. It then crosses Congresbury Moor roughly parallel to the A370, past the site of a roman villa before crossing under the M5 and empties into the Severn Estuary in Clevedon Bay to the west of the village of Kingston Seymour.
[edit] Features
- Yeo Valley is a farming valley in Somerset, England. It produces a range of organic, sugar-free yoghurts, crème fraîche, cheeses, milk and organic butter.
[edit] Flood prevention and conservation
The river falls within the area of the West Mendip Internal Drainage Board, which has a range of policies and guidance about flood prevention and conservation in the area.
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