Yeolmbridge
| Yeolmbridge | |
| Devon | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SX317874 |
| Location: | 50°39’43"N, 4°22’54"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Launceston |
| Postcode: | PL15 |
| Dialling code: | 01566 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cornwall |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
North Cornwall |
Yeolmbridge is a village in Devon, in the part of the county which extends west of the River Tamar. It is two and a half miles north of Launceston on the north bank of the River Ottery which marks the border with Cornwall to the south.
Yeolm Bridge over the River Ottery, between the Devon and Cornish banks, is Grade I listed and a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Built about 1350, it is considered the oldest surviving and best built of mediæval Cornish bridges. Nikolaus Pevsner described it as Cornwall's "most ambitious" bridge.[1]
Yeolmbridge Quarry, 300 yards east of the village, has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Geological Conservation Review site, as the type–locality of the Yeolmbridge Formation; a black shale which shows the Devonian–Carboniferous boundary around 359 million years ago with a sequence of fossils.[2]
References
- ↑ Engineering Timelines, Yeolm Bridge
- ↑ SSSI listing and designation for Yeolmbridge Quarry