{"id":7748,"date":"2011-04-12T17:22:57","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T22:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=7748"},"modified":"2022-07-04T06:33:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T11:33:12","slug":"english-whitewater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/english-whitewater\/","title":{"rendered":"English Whitewater"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Speaking of clapper bridges<\/a>… we were talking about clapper bridges, right? They’re not all confined to Devonshire. The Tarr Steps clapper bridge is a notable exception located in Somerset at Exmoor National Park<\/a>. Unlike the clapper bridges of Devon that date primarily from the middle ages and later eras, the Tarr Steps clapper may date back as much as three thousand years (map<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On To the Water<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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What does this have to do with English whitewater, you may wonder? Well, thank you for asking. The Tarr Steps across the River Barle provide a put-in for what is reputedly the only naturally-occurring whitewater in England. Let’s put the usual caveats in place. This does not include the rest of the island of Great Britain as whitewater exists in Scotland and Wales too. Also, for all I know there could be other whitewater in England but I couldn’t find evidence of them on the Intertubes. The vast and knowledgeable 12MC audience will tell me otherwise if that’s the case, and with my appreciation of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n