Description

LYDFORD
SX 67 NW
11/21 Powder Mills Clapper Bridge
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- II

Clapper bridge over Cherry Brook. Early-mid C19. Rough granite blocks to pier and
jambs, and granite slab lintels. The bridge is of 2 spans. Drill-holes in a number
of the stones suggest that the bridge was constructed after the turn of the C19
(when this method of splitting granite was introduced) and it may date from c.1844
when the nearby powder mills were built. This form of bridge construction on
Dartmoor was first used probably in early medieval times but later examples such as
this one also occur.
Source : Dartmoor : A New Study - Roads and Tracks : R Groves.

Listing NGR: SX6285677129

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26592801

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