River Wolf

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For the aquatic mammal, see Giant Otter.

The River Wolf is in Devonshire in England.

Its name may come from a Celtic or earlier name recorded by the Roman map-maker Ptolemy (Ptolemy II 3 13) as Ουολιβα (Voliba) as a town of the Dumnonii (it may be Broadbury Castle); rather than referring to the wolf animal.

The river runs from Broadbury through the valley below Germansweek and empties its water into Lake Roadford. Lake Roadford is a man-made reservoir built in 1989. The river then continues through Slew Woods below the village of Broadwoodwidger. In July 2006 some 100 million litres off water were released from the lake to help the survival of salmon in the river during a prolonged period of drought. The River Wolf continues in a Southerley direction eventually merging with the River Thrussell near Stowford and Dingles Steam Village and then the joins the River Lew at Tinhay near Lifton and becomes the River Lyd. The River Lyd eventually joins the Tamar River at the Devon/Cornwall border just East of Launceston