grebeman
Old Codgers Group
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- Barrie
I promised an intact clapper bridge some time ago. This is the much photographed bridge at Postbridge on Dartmoor, conveniently close to the "modern" main road, so little physical effort required to reach it
Bridges from two different eras for the price of one
It's very likely that this clapper bridge was a late build in terms of the time it was built. It is thought to have been built by tin miners when they opened up the nearby Vitifer tin mines. It was needed to get the smelted tin down to the stannary town of Tavistock using pack horses, that was back in the thirteenth century, most such bridges were built many hundreds of years earlier.
Barrie
Bridges from two different eras for the price of one
It's very likely that this clapper bridge was a late build in terms of the time it was built. It is thought to have been built by tin miners when they opened up the nearby Vitifer tin mines. It was needed to get the smelted tin down to the stannary town of Tavistock using pack horses, that was back in the thirteenth century, most such bridges were built many hundreds of years earlier.
Barrie