Yeolmbridge

Yeolmbridge
Yeolmbridge
Yeolmbridge shown 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
EU Parliament South West England
UK Parliament

Yeolmbridge is a village in Cornwall, historically in Devon, two and a half miles north of Launceston.[1]

Yeolm Bridge

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

  1. ↑ Wikimapia, Yeolmbridge
  2. ↑ Engineering Timelines, Yeolm Bridge
  3. ↑ Pevsner, N. (1951) Cornwall. Harmondsworth: Penguin; p. 220
  4. ↑ "Yeolmbridge Quarry" (PDF). Natural England. 1990. Retrieved 27 October 2011.
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