Cowley, Devon
Cowley is a hamlet in Devon, sitting just north of the city of Exeter, the county town. It is in the civil parish of Upton Pyne.
Cowley church was built as a chapel of ease to Brampford Speke by Rohde Hawkins in 1867-8.[1]
This is a place of retreat from Exeter, just north of the townscape, blessed by a single pub, The Three Horseshoes. Cowley is chiefly noted though for a fine three-arched bridge of classical design, built over the River Creedy in 1813-14 by James Green,[1] pupil of John Rennie the Elder and surveyor to the county of Devon. Although so recent in date, the bridge has been scheduled as an ancient monument.
Cowley Bridge Junction is a railway junction on the former Bristol and Exeter Railway, that allows access to the former North Devon Railway towards Barnstaple, now renamed the 'Tarka Line'. In 1848, the Exeter and Crediton Railway had built a station at Cowley Bridge, but it never opened.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bridget Cherry & Nikolaus Pevsner (1989). The Buildings of England — Devon. Harmondsworth: Penguin. pp. 293. ISBN 0-14-071050-7.
