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Bridge Name: Old Vicarage Footbridge
No.: 16
Location: Winsford SS 90702 34904
Build Date:

20th century
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Description:

Accommodation btidge for the Old Vicarage. Not shown on OS map

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Bridge Name: Larcombe Foot Bridge ROW Bridge No. 1986
No.: 13
Location: SS 90702 34904
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Concrete slab on RSJ’s supported on stone pillars, metal handrails. Carries bridleway DU 10/11. Rebuilt Feb/March 2023 (https://winsfordexmoor.org.uk/larcombe-foot-bridge/)

Probably built to replace  a post medieval footbridge (1)

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1. Exmoor HER – MEM24998 – Post-medieval footbridge at Larcombe Foot. A footbridge is shown and labelled on the 25 inch 1st Edition Ordnance Survey map. The bridge is not shown on the 25 inch 2nd Edition map, suggesting it had been removed by this time. The bridge is also not shown on the Tithe Map for Winsford, although it is possible it was extant at this time. 

Bridge Name: Nethercote Bridge – ROW Bridge 1985
No.: 14
Location: SS 87620 36142
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Concrete slab on rsj’s supported on stone pillars. Carries bridleway DU 10/11

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Bridge Name: West Nethercote Footbridge – ROW Bridge No. 1982
No.: 13
Location: SS 87620 36142
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Wooden footbridge with stone steps. Carries footpath DU 10/13

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Bridge Name: Lyncombe Bridge
No.: 12 
Location: SS 87620 36142
Build Date: C17-C18, possibly earlier
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Description:
Packhorse bridge. C17-C18, possibly earlier. Lias. Dry stone flat bedded rubble; single span, pointed arch; rubble voussoirs; curved abutments; parapet of undressed stone set on end, ramped up to centre. Hump backed bridge with remains of pebble pathway. A fine example of a single span, humpbacked Exmoor bridge, unusual in that it appears not to have been altered during the last two hundred years.1

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1.British Listed Buildings – Listing NGR: SS8672137487

Bridge Name: Southcot Footbridge
No.: 11
Location: SS 87620 36142
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Bridge Name: Southcot Bridge
No.: 10
Location: SS 87620 36142
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Accommodation bridge to Hantons Farm

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Bridge Name: North Court Bridge – ROW Bridge No. 3385
No.:9
Location: SS 85734 38036
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Concrete deck on rsj’s supported on concrete and stone piers. Carries ROW path No. DU 4/4

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Bridge Name: Exford Bridge
No.: 8
Location: Exford – SS 8525 3835
Build Date: Rebuilt 1930 on medieval site
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Road bridge over River Exe. Rebuilt 1930 on medieval site. Local stone random rubble facing T-beam, saddleback coping. Three arch span, semi-circular headed arches with 2 cutwater buttresses on each side.
English Heritage Listed Building Number: 265419. First Listed on 06/04/1959. 1
“There is a litle Tymbre Bridge at Exforde over Ex Brooke, ther being a smaul water”2

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1.Exmoor National Park HER – MSO10639
2.Second volume of Leyland’s Intinerary published by Hearne – see History of hundred of Carhampton, in the County of Somerset, from the best authorities by James Savage

Bridge Name: Edgcott ROW Bridge No. 3359
No.: 7
Location: SS 85253 38356
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Carries footpath DU 4/35

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