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 is located in Cornwall
Yeolmbridge
Yeolmbridge
Location within Cornwall
OS grid referenceSX317874
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townLAUNCESTON
Postcode districtPL15
Dialling code01566
PoliceDevon and Cornwall
FireCornwall
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament
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UK
England
Cornwall
50°39′43″N 4°22′54″W / 50.6620°N 4.3818°W / 50.6620; -4.3818

Yeolm Bridge

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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

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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.[4]

Notable people

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  • 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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  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.
  5. ^ "Fire crews work to save historian Rendell's archive". BBC News. 5 May 2010. Retrieved 16 May 2010.