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A leat, in the south and west of England and in Wales, is an artificial watercourse or aqueduct dug into the ground, especially one supplying water to a watermill or its mill pond. Other common uses f
The Devonport Leat near Nun's cross farm
The aqueducts at Dolaucothi
Devonport Leat showing sluice gates
Devonport Leat
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The Devonport Leat is a leat in Devon constructed in the 1790s to carry fresh drinking water from the high ground of Dartmoor to the expanding dockyards at Plymouth Dock.
Leat
…constructed in 1591 under the management of Sir Francis Drake, as an agent of the Corporation of Plymouth, to carry water from Dartmoor to Plymouth. Devonport Leat constructed in the late 18th century to carry water to the expanding naval dockyard at Devonport (now a part of Plymouth). Acequia…
Devonport Leat looking East towards Cramber Tor at Raddick Hill Falls
Aqueduct on the leat near Burrator Reservoir over the River Meavy