River Lerryn
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The River Lerryn is a river in east
SSSIs, including Redlake Meadows & Hoggs Moor.[1] The Lerryn rises at Fairy Cross (Grid ref. SX1262) on the southern slopes of Bodmin Moor and flows south-southwest until it enters the Fowey estuary (Grid ref. SX1255).[2]
The name of the river is Cornish; the earliest record of it is as "Leryan" and "Lerion" in 1289. In modern Cornish its name would be Dowr Leryon, meaning "river of floods".[3] The village of Lerryn is named after the river.
Footnotes
- ^ River catchments -- Fowey and Lerryn; Cornwall Rivers Project
- ^ Ordnance Survey One-inch Map of England & Wales; Bodmin and Launceston, sheet 186. 1946
- ISBN 9781904808220; p. 3
External links
Media related to River Lerryn at Wikimedia Commons
- River Lerryn; Explore Britain
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