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The Moors River is a river in east
The Moors River is a river in east Dorset
Dorset ( ; Archaism, archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north and the north-east, Hampshire to the east, t ...
, England
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, which starts at the point where the River Crane and the Ebblake Stream meet, at Ebblake, south of Verwood
Verwood is a town and civil parish in eastern Dorset, England. The town lies north of Bournemouth and north east of Poole as the crow flies. The civil parish comprises the town of Verwood together with the extended village of Three Legged Cr ...
.
It runs south then southeast, past Bournemouth International Airport and Hurn to join the River Stour at Blackwater, Dorset.
It is well known to dragonfly
A dragonfly is a flying insect belonging to the infraorder Anisoptera below the order Odonata. About 3,000 extant species of dragonflies are known. Most are tropical, with fewer species in temperate regions. Loss of wetland habitat threat ...
enthusiasts as the last site in Britain where Orange-spotted Emerald
The orange-spotted emerald (''Oxygastra curtisii'') is a dragonfly in the family Corduliidae. It is the only species in its genus.
The orange-spotted emerald is about long. It has bright green eyes and a bronzy-green body with yellow spots alo ...
occurred.
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