Yeolmbridge

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Yeolmbridge
Location within Cornwall
OS grid reference SX317874
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Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town LAUNCESTON
Postcode district PL15
Dialling code 01566
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50°39′43″N4°22′54″W / 50.6620°N 4.3818°W / 50.6620; -4.3818 Coordinates: 50°39′43″N4°22′54″W / 50.6620°N 4.3818°W / 50.6620; -4.3818

Yeolmbridge is a village in Cornwall (but within the boundaries of the historic county of Devon), two and a half miles north of Launceston. [1]

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Yeolm Bridge

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Yeolm Bridge

The village takes its name from the bridge, Yeolm Bridge which crosses the River Ottery and is Grade I listed and a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Built about 1350, it is considered the oldest surviving and best built of medieval Cornish bridges. In 1951 Nikolaus Pevsner described it as Cornwall's "most ambitious" bridge. [2] [3]

Quarry

Yeolmbridge Quarry SSSI is 250 m to the east of the village. The quarry is designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Geological Conservation Review (GCR) site, as the type–locality of the Yeolmbridge Formation; a black shale which shows the DevonianCarboniferous boundary around 359 million years ago with a sequence of fossils. [4]

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References

  1. Wikimapia, Yeolmbridge
  2. Engineering Timelines, Yeolm Bridge
  3. Pevsner, N. (1951) Cornwall. Harmondsworth: Penguin; p. 220
  4. "Yeolmbridge Quarry" (PDF). Natural England. 1990. Retrieved 27 October 2011.
  5. "Fire crews work to save historian Rendell's archive". BBC News. 5 May 2010. Retrieved 16 May 2010.