Yeolmbridge

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Yeolmbridge
Yeolmbridge is located in Cornwall
Yeolmbridge
Yeolmbridge
 Yeolmbridge shown within Cornwall
OS grid reference SX317874
Civil parish Werrington
Unitary authority Cornwall
Ceremonial county Cornwall
Region South West
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town LAUNCESTON
Postcode district PL15
Dialling code 01566
Police Devon and Cornwall
Fire Cornwall
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK Parliament North Cornwall
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Yeolmbridge is a village in Cornwall, historically in Devon, two and a half miles north of Launceston.[1]

Yeolm Bridge over the River Ottery is Grade I listed and a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Built about 1350, it is considered the oldest surviving and best built of medieval Cornish bridges. Nikolaus Pevsner described it as Cornwall's "most ambitious" bridge.[2]

Yeolmbridge Quarry SSSI is 250 m to the east of the village. The quarry is designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Geological Conservation Review (GCR) site, as the type–locality of the Yeolmbridge Formation; a black shale which shows the DevonianCarboniferous boundary around 359 million years ago with a sequence of fossils.[3]

Notable people

  • Joan Rendell, an English historian, writer and phillumenist, was resident at Yeolmbridge in the latter part of her life.

References

  1. Wikimapia, Yeolmbridge
  2. Engineering Timelines, Yeolm Bridge
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Yeolm Bridge

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