River Otter, Devon predominantly rural area, with small cattle, sheep and dairy farms. The largest town in the Otter Valley is Honiton. Tourism and leisure play important roles in the economy. For much of its length, the river flows through two Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs) – The Blackdown Hills AONB (to the north of Honiton) and East Devon AONB (to the south of Ottery St Mary). The river passes through or by Upottery, Rawridge, Monkton, Honiton, Alfington, Ottery St Mary, Tipton St John, Newton Poppleford and Otterton before reaching the Otter Estuary to the east of Budleigh Salterton. The Otter Estuary
To the River Otter to idolatry by so slender, if genuine, a talent as that of Bowles has been an enigma of literary history." At the end of the 20th-century, Jack Stillinger argues, in regard to the 1797 edition of Coleridge's works, that "Apart from the addition of works by Lamb and Lloyd, "1797" contains ten new poems by Coleridge, of which "Sonnet to the River Otter" and "Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement" are the most important." To the River Otter "To the River Otter" is a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Though its date of creation is uncertain, it was