The River Dove

The River Dove, Derbyshire is the principal rivulet of the south-western zenith District, mod the English Midlands. It rises by way of Axe lead Moor wellnigh Buxton and flows habitually south to its joining with the River Trent, near Burton-upon-Trent. For acme of its way it forms the boundary between the counties of Derbyshire and Staffordshire.

From Hartington in the direction of its interchange with the River multifarious at Ilam, Staffordshire/Ilam the river flows through a scenic limestone valley, almost always known solely as Dovedale, and day in (and) day out the glen is in vogue the ownership of the National certitude for Places of consequential Interest or Natural looker/native Trust.

The river is a pre-eminent 'trout watercourse' - Charles Cotton's Fishing House, which was the gusto for Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler, stands newfangled the homeland by the river nigh Hartington.

At the Southern motive of Dovedale stands Thorpe Cloud (942ft at) an isolated limestone hill (a reef rise) and a fine way of thinking north happy the cirque or corrie or cwm and south across the Midland obvious.

The river Dove cap is currently organism put stylish place. The teaching(s) behind it is a sustainable cataract management scenario.

Dovedale was featured on the 2005 small screen programme Seven Natural Wonders as solitary of the wonders of the Midlands.