Shipley Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1986. A 18th century Bridge.
Shipley Bridge
- WRENN ID
- peeling-alcove-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1986
- Type
- Bridge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SOUTH BRENT SX 66 SE
5/194 Shipley Bridge - - II
Road bridge over River Avon, at this point a moorland brook. Probably C18, widened in C19. Granite rubble. single span round arch with dressed granite recessed arch ring. Parapets with large roughly squared granite coping stones. This bridge was originally a narrow pack-horse bridge and widened in C19 on the north upstream side. It was described by the Rev Samuel Rowe as a "single arched moorstone bridge" but according to James Coreen, the County Surveyor, it was "a very rough bridge thrown across from two rocks". Reference: C Henderson and E Jervoise. "Old Devon Bridges", page 24.
Listing NGR: SX6809462874
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