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Congresbury Yeo
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| Congresbury Yeo | |
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 Compton Martin Duck Pond
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| Country | England |
| County | Somerset |
| Major cities | Ubley, Congresbury, Wrington, Iwood |
| Landmark | Blagdon Lake |
| Source | Compton Martin Duck Pond |
| - location | Compton Martin, Somerset, England |
| - coordinates | |
| Mouth | Severn Estuary |
| - location | Kingston Seymour, Somerset, England |
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| - elevation | 0 ft (0 m) |
- For other rivers called Yeo, see River Yeo
The River Yeo (often referred to as the Congresbury Yeo, after the village of Congresbury, through which it flows, to avoid confusion with other similarly-named rivers) is a river which flows through North Somerset, England.
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The river rises in the centre of Compton Martin village, in the district of Bath and North East Somerset, as a spring which feeds the village duckpond. From there it flows past the village of Ubley and enters Blagdon Lake, which was created in the 1890s by damming the river, just north of the village of Blagdon. From the lake the river flows south of Wrington and Iwood, where there was once one of several watermills along the river. It then flows around the northern outskirts of Congresbury, and crosses Congresbury Moor roughly parallel to the A370 road, past the site of a Roman villa. It then crosses under the M5 motorway and empties into the Severn Estuary in Clevedon Bay, west of the village of Kingston Seymour.
The river falls within the area of the West Mendip Internal Drainage Board, which has a range of policies and guidance about flood prevention and conservation in the area.
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