Oakery Clapper Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. Clapper bridge.

Oakery Clapper Bridge

WRENN ID
silent-forge-flax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dartmoor National Park
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 October 1987
Type
Clapper bridge
Address
Oakery Clapper Bridge, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon
OS grid reference
SX 595 741
Coordinates
50.55038, -3.98446
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Oakery Clapper Bridge is a clapper bridge that crosses the Blackbrook River. It is likely from the 18th century and features granite rubble for the piers and jambs, along with massive granite slab lintels. The bridge has two spans.

Local climate

Oakery Clapper Bridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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