Description

BLACKAWTON BOW
SX84NW Bow Bridge
5/30
II

Bridge over a stream (The Gara). Late C17 (dated 168-), widened in C18 or
C19. Local slate rubble with dressed slate arch ring.
A single span bridge with a dressed slate segmental arch springing from
straight jambs with chamfered imposts. Low stone rubble parapets with
vertical slate lacing. The parapets continue over long abutments. Inside
the north west parapet there is a stone plaque inscribed "This Bridge was
built by County .......... 168-", part of the inscription is
illegible.
The bridge was originally about 12 feet wide and widened on the south east
downstream side by about 7 feet, judging by a masonry joint on the underside
of the arch.
James Green the County Surveyor of Bridges, mentions in 1809 that Bow Bridge
on "the great road from Kingsbridge to Dartmouth" had then only a 6 foot
roadway. Therefore if this is the same bridge it would have been widened on
the upstream, north west, side and not on the downstream side as previously
stated.
Source: C Henderson and E Jervoise, Old Devon Bridges, pp 29 and 30.

Listing NGR: SX8071349378

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26610724

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