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The River Teign or is a river in the county of Devon, England. The river-name 'Teign' is first attested in an Anglo-Saxon charter of 739, where it appears as ''Teng''. The name is pre-Roman, related to the Welsh ''taen'' meaning 'sprinkling', and means simply 'stream'.〔Eilert Ekwall, ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names'', p.462.〕 Like many Devon rivers, the Teign rises on Dartmoor, near Cranmere Pool. Its course on the moor is crossed by a clapper bridge near Teigncombe (a farm approx. 3 km. W. of Chagford), just below the prehistoric Kestor Settlement. It leaves the moor at its eastern side, flowing beneath Castle Drogo in a steep-sided valley. It then flows southwards at the east edge of the moor. The river becomes tidal at Newton Abbot and reaches the English Channel at Teignmouth. Its estuary is a large ria. The river lends its name to several places on the map in its to the English Channel: Teigncombe, Drewsteignton, Teigngrace, Kingsteignton (at one time, one of England's largest villages), Bishopsteignton, Teignharvey, and the second largest settlement along its course, Teignmouth, pronounced . ==Crossings== Until 1827 the most downstream bridge over the river was Teign Bridge at Teigngrace. When it was being rebuilt in 1815 it became apparent that at least four successive bridges had been erected at various times with or over the remains of the previous constructions. Mr. P. T. Taylor, who investigated the matter at the time, gave as his opinion that: the last or upper work was done in the sixteenth century, and that the red bridge had been built on the salt marsh in the thirteenth century; since which time there has been an accumulation of soil to the depth of ten feet. He supposes the wooden bridge to be old as the Conquest, and the white stone bridge to have been Roman work.〔Jusserand, J.J. (1891). ''English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages.'' Pub. T. Fisher Unwin, London. P. 69. Available online at (www.archive.org ).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「River Teign」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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