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River Parrett

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Dredging the River Parrett

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3.1 Bridgwater & The River Parrett

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River Parrett Trail, Langport highlights

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Dot Walford introduces The River Parrett Trail, Somerset's 50 mile walk

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River Parrett Round

The River Parrett flows through the counties of Dorset and Somerset in South West England, from its source in the Thorney Mills springs in the hills around Chedington in Dorset. Flowing northwest through Somerset and the Somerset Levels to its mouth at Burnham-on-Sea, into the Bridgwater Bay nature reserve on the Bristol Channel, the Parrett and its tributaries drain an area of 660 square miles (1,700 km2) – about 50 per cent of Somerset's land area, with a population of 300,000.
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