Avon Dam Reservoir Claimed

Avon Dam, also known as the River Aune, near Bantham rises in the southern half of Dartmoor National Park in an area of bog to the west of Ryder's Hill.

Close to where the river leaves Dartmoor a dam was built in 1957 to form the Avon reservoir.

After leaving the Moor it passes through South Brent then Avonwick and Aveton Gifford and flows into the sea at Bigbury-on-Sea.