3-510: Badgworthy Water is a small river which flows through Malmsmead on Exmoor , close to the border between Devon and Somerset , England. It merges with Oare Water to become the East Lyn River . On the banks of the river are the remains of a few dwellings which formed a medieval village. The last resident left in the 1820s. The 17th century packhorse Malmsmead Bridge crosses Badgworthy Water, alongside an even older ford . The valley
6-511: Is associated with the book Lorna Doone . It has been used for canoeing and includes grade 2 and 3 rapids, walking and fly fishing . Malmsmead Malmsmead is a hamlet on the border between the English counties of Devon and Somerset . The nearest town is Lynton , which lies approximately 4.7 miles (7.6 km) west of the hamlet. The hamlet is situated in the Doone Valley within
9-527: The Exmoor National Park . The border between the counties is along Badgworthy Water , which is crossed by the 17th-century Malmsmead Bridge and an even older adjacent ford. Badgworthy Water is also the boundary between the parishes of Oare (Somerset) and Brendon and Countisbury (Devon). Malmsmead is both on the route of the Coleridge Way and Samaritans Way South West . Just to the north of
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