Tavy Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 February 1984. A Late 19th century Railway bridge.

Tavy Bridge

WRENN ID
far-threshold-jay
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 February 1984
Type
Railway bridge
Period
Late 19th century
Address
Tavy Bridge, Bickleigh, South Hams
OS grid reference
SX 450 614
Coordinates
50.43281, -4.18352
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Tavy Bridge is a railway bridge that spans the estuary of the River Tavy, built around 1889-90. It features eight spans of iron bowstring braced girders supported by seven pairs of iron-clad circular piers with pedimental caps. The bridge crosses the deep-water channel, and at either end, it is connected to a stone viaduct with segmental arches—seven arches at the south-east end and two at the north-west end. The Plymouth Devonport South-Western Junction Railway Company, established in 1883, opened this line from Lydford to Devonport in 1890. The line was initially operated by the LSWR, which had a small stake in the company, before fully taking over in 1922.

Local climate

Tavy Bridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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