LYDIA BRIDGE
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307206
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1986
- Statutory Address:
- LYDIA BRIDGE
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- LYDIA BRIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- South Brent
- National Park:
- DARTMOOR
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 69573 60666
Details
SOUTH BRENT LYDIA BRIDGE
SX 6960
14/90 Lydia Bridge
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GV II
Road bridge over River Avon. C17 or C18 packhorse bridge with hump back and
widened on upstream side. Stone rubble. single round arch. Large stone slabs
forming string with parapets above with large granite coping stones. In 1669
Lydia Bridge was in decay and the existing bridge appears to be either the
restored earlier bridge or an entire rebuilding of late C17 or C18. Reference:
C Henderson and E Jervoise 'Old Devon Bridges', pp.24 and 25.
Listing NGR: SX6957360666
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 99370
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Henderson, C, Jervoise, E , Old Devon Bridges, (1938), 24 25
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
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