Clapper bridge at Postbridge - geograph.org.uk - 1049853

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Clapper bridge at Postbridge From http://www.legendarydartmoor.co.uk/post_bridge.htm The term 'clapper bridge' is a term used on Dartmoor for a bridge which has one or more flat slabs of stones which rest on stone piers and thus spans a river or stream. The Dartmoor term for the slabs are 'posts' which is how Postbridge acquired its name. It is possible that the bridge dates back as early as the 1300's as by this time many of the nearby moorland farms had been established. The earliest documented record of the bridge is from a newtake lease of 1655 where it states: "scituate lyinge and beinge between postbridge and a nutake of on Richard Leeres..." The bridge then appears on John Ogilby's Exeter to Truro road map of 1675 where it is marked as "a Stone bridge, 3 Arches Called Post bridg."

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