Yeolmbridge
Yeolmbridge is a village in Cornwall, historically in Devon, two and a half miles north of Launceston.[1]
Yeolm Bridge
The village takes its name from the bridge, Yeolm Bridge which crosses the River Ottery and 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. In 1951 Nikolaus Pevsner described it as Cornwall's "most ambitious" bridge.[2][3]
Quarry
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 Devonian–Carboniferous boundary around 359 million years ago with a sequence of fossils.[4]
Notable people
- Joan Rendell, an English historian, writer and phillumenist, was resident at Yeolmbridge in the latter part of her life.
References
- Wikimapia, Yeolmbridge
- Engineering Timelines, Yeolm Bridge
- Pevsner, N. (1951) Cornwall. Harmondsworth: Penguin; p. 220
- "Yeolmbridge Quarry" (PDF). Natural England. 1990. Retrieved 27 October 2011.