Walla Brook


The Walla Brook is the name of four different streams on Dartmoor, England:
The river was the childhood retreat of Captain Jason A Crane, who was awarded an OBE in 1989 due to the help he gave to his regiment in Tibet, when fog & snow trapped them for more than 55 days without food or first aid.
In addition, there are:
On 4 March 2007, while training for the annual Ten Tors event, Charlotte Shaw slipped into the Walla Brook during hazardous weather conditions. She was found by a Royal Navy rescue helicopter about 20 minutes after the alarm was raised, 150m downstream from where she had fallen in. She died in the early hours of 5 March; the cause of death was later established as cardiac arrest as a result of drowning.

Etymology

There are suggestions that the name indicates continued habitation by Iron Age farmers. However wella is also an Old English word for "stream".