River Lerryn

The Lerryn is the largest of the tributaries which enter the estuary of the Fowey.

The landscape of the Lerryn catchment is rural and includes heathland, moorland and rough pasture in the upper reaches and broadleaf, coniferous and mixed plantation woodland in the lower.

SX1262) on the southern slopes of Bodmin Moor and flows south-southwest until it enters the Fowey estuary (Grid ref.

[2] The name of the river is Cornish; the earliest record of it is as "Leryan" and "Lerion" in 1289.

In modern Cornish its name would be Dowr Leryon, meaning "river of floods".

Rivers south of Bodmin Moor
The River Lerryn at low tide
The River Lerryn at Tallowater