Bow Bridge
BOW BRIDGE
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325142
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Bow Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- BOW BRIDGE
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2006-09-10
- Reference:
- IOE01/15745/08
- Rights:
- © Mr Robert W Keniston. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325142
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Bow Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOW BRIDGE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BOW BRIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Blackawton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 80713 49378
Details
BLACKAWTON BOW SX84NW Bow Bridge 5/30 II
Bridge over a stream (The Gara). Late C17 (dated 168-), widened in C18 or C19. Local slate rubble with dressed slate arch ring. A single span bridge with a dressed slate segmental arch springing from straight jambs with chamfered imposts. Low stone rubble parapets with vertical slate lacing. The parapets continue over long abutments. Inside the north west parapet there is a stone plaque inscribed "This Bridge was built by County .......... 168-", part of the inscription is illegible. The bridge was originally about 12 feet wide and widened on the south east downstream side by about 7 feet, judging by a masonry joint on the underside of the arch. James Green the County Surveyor of Bridges, mentions in 1809 that Bow Bridge on "the great road from Kingsbridge to Dartmouth" had then only a 6 foot roadway. Therefore if this is the same bridge it would have been widened on the upstream, north west, side and not on the downstream side as previously stated. Source: C Henderson and E Jervoise, Old Devon Bridges, pp 29 and 30.
Listing NGR: SX8071349378
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 99819
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Henderson, C, Jervoise, E, Old Devon Bridges, (1938), 29 and 30
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 17-Jun-2026 at 07:36:12.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.