River Huntspill

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The River Huntspill (or Huntspill River) is an artificial river, in the Somerset Levels, in the Sedgemoor district of the United Kingdom.

The river was excavated as a five mile long straight channel using a dragline during the early years of World War II. It was constructed as a priority war work. Its function was to provide an all year-round guaranteed supply of 4.5 million gallons per day of process water for ROF Bridgwater, the Royal Ordnance Factory near Puriton.

The Hunspill River drains into the River Parrett; which discharges into Bridgwater Bay, an important National Nature Reserve, on the edge of the Estuary of the River Severn.

Reference

• Williams, Michael. (1970). The Draining of the Somerset Levels. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press