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After four traumatic years at the front during the First World War, Henry Williamson came to live on the fringes of Exmoor in 1921 - an experience of the country life and landscape of Exmoor that he immortalised in his famous book Tarka the Otter.
After decades of virtual disappearance from the Exmoor scene, otters are back on every major river. Henry Williamson would be pleased.
Nearly 70 years ago, the novelist Henry Williamson drew on his intimate knowledge of the beautiful north Devon countryside to provide the setting for one of the best-loved of all nature stories, 'Tarka the Otter'. The Torridge valley, with its intimate wooded banks, was Tarka's home territory. His fictional birthplace was amid the roots of an riverside oak close to Canal Bridge which can be seen from the Tarka Trail. Well worth exploring on or off the Trail!
Tarka the Otter is a story tracing an otter's
journey through the clear waters and lush valleys of the 'Land of Two
Rivers' -the rivers being the Taw and Torridge. To this day, little about
the area has changed and its magic remains as powerful as ever.
Otter at lunch time
The Tarka Trail is named after Henry
Williamson's 'Tarka the Otter' which was based on many locations along
the Trail.
Contributed by:Robert Atkinson
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