Wallabrook Bridge
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| Wallabrook Bridge | |
| Devon | |
|---|---|
.jpg) The Wallabrook Bridge | |
| Location | |
| Type: | clapper bridge |
| Crossing: | Walla Brook (Teign) |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SX65358712 |
| Location: | 50°40’6"N, 3°54’24"W |
| Structure | |
| Type: | clapper bridge |
| History | |
| Information | |
| Condition: | complete |
The Wallabrook Bridge is a clapper bridge over the Walla Brook, a tributary of the North Teign River, on Dartmoor in Devon. The bridge is in the north of the moor, and crosses the brook just upstream of the place where it enters the North Teign.
The bridge is of ancient design and reckoned to be of the 18th or even 19th centuries, though its simple slab-on-rocks design could go back to prehistory.
The bridge is made of two massive, irregular-shaped slabs of granite laid across the river with a single pillar of irregular granite blocks built in the middle of the stream. The abutments are built up of relatively large slabs of granite too. The bridge arches slightly due to the height of the pillar.[1]
References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1106162: Wallabrook Bridge