lower Corve valley for at least a century afterwards.

Pollution and floods

In 2006 as a result of pollution by slurry from a livestock farm in Brockton near Stanton Long, fish were found dead in the river.

During heavy flooding in 2007 when the river rose 1.6 m in three hours, a house collapsed into the river and the Burway Bridge collapsed severing the connection of the B4361 Coronation Avenue, a major access route, with the town centre of

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