10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CLAPPER BRIDGE»
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Articles on Exmoor, Including: Lorna Doone, River Exe, ...
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Bridges: The Science and Art of the World's Most Inspiring ...
This clapper bridge is about 155 m long with 17 spans of stone slabs about 1. 5
m wide laid on stone piers up to about 4.5 m wide. The biggest surviving clapper
bridge, the Anping Bridge, was built in China more than 800 years ago. It crosses
...
It becomes clear again as you drop into a valley to reach a wonderful and ancient
clapper bridge (made of stone slabs), which you cross to the north bank of the
River Avon. Follow the path (boggy in places) down the north side of the river to ...
Sandra Bardwell, Belinda Dixon, Peter Dragicevic, 2007
Granite can take some tension, and if the slab is thick enough it will cope with the
tension it gets underneath, for the loads it has to carry. For this reason the clapper
bridge was popular in Devon and Cornwall. There aren't many pack animals ...
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Walking on Dartmoor: National Park and surrounding areas
If you do not wish to go down to this ruin then walk north-east from Teignhead
Farm, keeping your height and not following the path down to the clapper bridge
over the river. You will come to a walled, funnel-shaped passage, quite narrow at
...
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Where To Go When: Great Britain & Ireland
The best-known clapper bridge is the large and ambitious one at Postbridge,
which is thought to date back to the 14th century, with slabs weighing up to 8 tons
each. Other examples include the Teignhead Farm Clapper and the Avon
Clapper.
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English White Water: The British Canoe Union Guidebook
clapper bridge (654871). You need to drive up the south side of the valley from
Chagford to reach the end of the road at Batwor- thy. There is good parking
outside a farm entrance. Wondering where the river is? It's a mile away on the
other ...
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Questing Marilyn: In Search Of My Holy Grail: Personal ...
I hope it turns out for you, Lass." Clapper Bridge I thank them and they assure me
it has been no bother at all. Continuing together along the shore, I ask about the
stones piled across the river beside the arched stone road bridge. They look like
...
Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem M.Ed., 2003
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The End to End Cycle Route: Land's End to John o' Groats
Continue on the B3212 for approximately 31⁄2 miles and look out for the three
spans of the 14m, granite clapper bridge (SX 649 789) over the East Dart River at
Postbridge on the right. This type of bridge is common on Dartmoor; originally ...
This bridge, near Moretonhampstead, is a fine example of a medieval clapper
bridge, of which there are several in Devon and Somerset (e.g. Tarr Steps HEW
863, p.92). None are dated before the thirteenth century. It crosses the East Dart ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CLAPPER BRIDGE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
clapper bridge is used in the context of the following news items.
Stroud Rambling Club
The walk started at the Clapper bridge over the river Coln crossing the bridge past the picturesque Arlington Row, cottages now owned by the ... «Stroud News and Journal, Jun 15»
A walk on Bodmin Moor, in Cornwall
... on a tall granite memorial stone which you will see just a few yards down the small clear stream from the old clapper bridge near the car park. «Western Daily Press, Jun 15»
Dartmoor by horse - with pictures
We headed down past Fernworthy Forest, on towards Postbridge, crossing the road to take a bridleway near the clapper bridge before heading ... «Western Morning News, Jun 15»
Why Dartmoor is quids-in
The money is being spent on access improvements, including a new granite clapper bridge near Haytor, funding towards the new footbridge ... «Western Morning News, May 15»
'What is this concrete and steel monstrosity doing on a mountainside …
The girder bridge over the Afon Goch, above Llanberis, was erected a year ago to replace an old slate clapper bridge that was destroyed in a ... «Daily Post North Wales, May 15»
EASTER TREATS: Top things to do around East Lancashire this …
Hundreds of plastic ducks are expected to 'swim' from the clapper bridge to Wycoller Hall. Lancashire Telegraph: Easter egg hunts will be held ... «Lancashire Telegraph, Apr 15»
Romantic things to do in and around North Devon this Valentine's …
Tarr Steps is the longest medieval clapper bridge in the UK, said to be the work of the devil. This idyllic setting – once named the UK's best ... «North Devon Journal, Feb 15»
Woman, 72, feels her home is no longer her own after burglar raided …
The witness, Stacey Baker, who was walking down the road with her son, asked Schofield, of Clapper Bridge, Saltash, what he was doing. «Plymouth Herald, Feb 15»
William Schofield, 22, of Saltash, pleaded guilty to receiving stolen …
William Schofield, of Clapper Bridge, Saltash, pleaded guilty to receiving the stolen items when he appeared before Bodmin magistrates in ... «Cornish Guardian, Jan 15»
Celia's Chronicles
And when the road abruptly ended by Tarr Steps, a medieval clapper bridge over a shallow river, I was banking on the Aston Martin going into ... «Huffington Post UK, Jan 15»
