Yeolmbridge is a village in Cornwall (but within the boundaries of the historic county of Devon), two and a half miles north of Launceston.[1]
| Yeolmbridge | |
|---|---|
  Yeolmbridge Location within Cornwall | |
| OS grid reference | SX317874 |
| Civil parish | |
| Unitary authority | |
| Ceremonial county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LAUNCESTON |
| Postcode district | PL15 |
| Dialling code | 01566 |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
| Fire | Cornwall |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| UK Parliament | |
Yeolm Bridge
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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
editYeolmbridge 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
edit- Joan Rendell, an English historian, writer and phillumenist, was resident at Yeolmbridge in the latter part of her life.[5]
References
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- ^ Wikimapia, Yeolmbridge
- ^ Engineering Timelines, Yeolm Bridge
- ^ Pevsner, N. (1951) Cornwall. Harmondsworth: Penguin; p. 220
- ^ "Yeolmbridge Quarry" (PDF). Natural England. 1990. Retrieved 27 October 2011.
- ^ "Fire crews work to save historian Rendell's archive". BBC News. 5 May 2010. Retrieved 16 May 2010.
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